Page 677 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

A fine circa 1820 high quality fitted card tray created in the neo-classical style with gadrooned border and of far
heavier gauge silver than an equivalent English silver tray.

Samuel Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania reports
the voyage of the Empress of China which left
New York harbour for Canton on 22 February 1784
- the very first voyage of an American merchant
vessel to China.

The ship’s manifest clearly records among the
cargo of the second voyage of this vessel in 1786
a single tea chest of silver items from Tu Hopp of
Old China Street, Canton.

This is the first written record of Chinese silver
being sent specifically to America.

Fiddle, thread and shell dessert
forks by Tu Hopp