Page 478 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

LEECHING [aka: LEE CHING] GOLD PRODUCTION
24a Queens Road, Hong Kong
30 Old China Street, Canton
Nanking Road, ShangHai
circa 1820-1880

Lee Ching, as with many of the contemporary Chinese retail silversmiths of the early 19th century, particularly in
Canton, built their reputations upon a range of luxury items over and above silver. Lee Ching not only
commissioned some truly superb pieces of gold jewellery and boxes, but also specialised in parcel gilding the
exterior [as well as the interior] of numerous Chinese Export Silver objects; a density of parcel gilding that often
remains totally intact today.

The gold mark Lee Ching used was always the “LC” mark accompanied by an additional mark which resembles
a “C” [possibly for carat; possibly for Canton - we don’t know].