Lot 30
  • 30

Two Similar Chinese Export Silver Mugs and Covers, Cutshing, Canton, circa 1875

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases
  • Silver
  • heights approximately 6in.
  • 15.3cm
tapered cylindrical, embossesd with Chinese figures and pagodas amongst prunus and bamboo trees, engraved with matching crests, bamboo form handles, the domed covers with foliate bud finials

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand H. Davis, New York
The Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York

Exhibited

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975-81

Literature

Architectural Digest, July 1982, p. 85.
John Devereux Kernan, The Chait Collection of Chinese Export Silver, 1985, No. 21.

Condition

both finials pushed down into covers and need straightening, otherwise good condition
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