Page 501 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

Lin Chong was also a master of the snuff box; Lin
Chong being one of the few Chinese retail silversmiths
to commission snuff boxes in 22 carat gold.
The box [left] dates to circa 1840 and is decorated
totally with traditional Chinese scenes within a classic
Western form.

The circa 1845 snuff box [below] is of a more unusual
form and it decorated with intricately engraved scholar
scenes and as with most Lin Chong snuff boxes, the
interior is parcel gilded.

The following illustrated item is a circa 1825 Lin Chong tea urn. Rivalling anything Paul Storr or Paul Revere
would have made, the urn takes the form of a perfect neo-classical lidded form with all the decoration one would
expect from a John Nash design. The addition of the curling serpent is sheer genius and then to fashion the
head of the serpent as the spigot with a neo-classical turned ivory finial is Lin Chong at its best.