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A RARE CARVED BOXWOOD SEAL OF 來源：英國牛津郡Roy Davids（1943-2017）
GENERAL GORDON 舊藏
1860s 倫敦邦瀚斯，2011年3月29日，拍品編號383
Carved with the characters ‘戈登’, ‘Ge
deng’, a transliteration for ‘Gordon’, inscribed 展覽著錄：D.S.Howard，《A Tale of Three
‘Gordon’ on the back in a nineteenth-century Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong,
hand. 8.3cm (3 1/4in) long. Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the
Decorative Arts》，倫敦，1997年，頁230，
£4,000 - 6,000 編號314
CNY36,000 - 54,000 Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2011年，編號99
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Major-General Charles George Gordon CB
(1833-1885), also known as ‘Chinese Gordon’,
十九世紀六十年代 黃楊木雕「戈登」名章 ‘Gordon Pasha’, and latterly ‘Gordon of
Khartoum’, was a British Army officer and
Provenance: Roy Davids (1943-2017), administrator. He saw action in the Crimean
Oxfordshire War as an officer in the British Army. However,
Bonhams London, 29 March 2011, lot 383 he made his military reputation in China,
where he was placed in command of the ‘Ever
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Victorious Army’, a force of Chinese soldiers
D.S.Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, led by European officers. In the early 1860s,
Shanghai and Hong Kong, Three Centuries Gordon and his men were instrumental in
of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly
London, 1997, p.230, no.314. defeating much larger forces. For these
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, accomplishments, he was given the nickname
2011, no.99. ‘Chinese Gordon’ and honours from both the
Emperor of China and the British government.
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB
(1833–1885)

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