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                                                                              A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER GOBLET
                                                                              Dated by inscription 1882
                                                                              Set on three bamboo-form slender legs, on
                                                                              a domed rockwork circular base, the body
                                                                              decorated with a dense scene of warriors
                                                                              and officials in a tree-strewn landscape, the
                                                                              crest inscribed ‘Province Wellesley Sports
                                                                              Club, Lawn Tennis Challenge Cup, Won By
                                                                              Arthur Bligh Stephens, 16th May 1882’.
                                                                              28.2cm (11.1/8in) high.

                                                                              £2,000 - 3,000
                                                                              HK$20,000 - 29,000
                                                                              CNY18,000 - 27,000

                                                                              563
                                                                              AN EXPORT SILVER TEAPOT AND
                                                                              COVER
                                                                              Tianjin, circa 1900
                             562                                              With bamboo form spout, double hinged
                                                                              loop handle with attached chain and stopper
                                                                              and peach form finial, incised with a dense
                                                                              bamboo grove with rockwork and above
                                                                              waves, the flattened shoulder with a band of
                                                                              archaistic characters, the base with stamped
                                                                              marks 天津恆立 Tiānjīn héng lì, 足紋Zú wén
                                                                              and 桂Guì. 9cm (3.1/2in) high excluding
                                                                              handle. (2).
                                                                              £1,000 - 1,500
                                                                              HK$9,800 - 15,000
                                                                              CNY8,900 - 13,000
                                                                              564
                                                                              AN EXPORT SILVER BOWL AND STEM
                                                                              CUP
                                                                              Stamped marks of Luen Wo, Shanghai, circa
                                                                              1880-1925
                        563                                                   The bowl decorated with an elegant lady
                                                                              in a sampan before further figures and boy
                                                                              attendants in a tree-strewn garden, the base
                                                                              interior with a pavilion beneath paulownia,
                                                                              stamped mark ‘LW’ and artisan’s mark; the
                                                                              cup flanked with bamboo form handles,
                                                                              decorated with boys at play in a garden,
                                                                              with undecorated central roundel, stamped
                                                                              mark ‘LUENWO’ and artisan’s mark. The cup
                                                                              15.2cm (6in) high. (2).

                                                                              £1,000 - 1,500
                                                                              HK$9,800 - 15,000
                                                                              CNY8,900 - 13,000













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