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KWAN SHING [aka: Q.S.]
Canton
circa 1830-1860
An early and extremely rare Chinese Export Silver maker who created fine quality silver, much of it in the neo-
classical Georgian style.
A fine circa 1850 hinged lidded box with high unusual scene engraved on the lid within a bamboo foliate border.
The reversed “S” in so-called pseudo-hallmarks Kwan Shing regularly used is not particularly unusual
inasmuch as spelling and grammatical errors were commonplace in the English versions of Chinese silver
marks and can, in the main, be put down to the illiteracy of most Chinese at this time. However, in circa 1875
after Kwan Shing is believed to have ceased to operate, another Chinese silversmith, Onn Sing, operating from
