Page 751 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

There is almost no such thing as an understated item of Tu Mao Xing silver; this was obviously the silversmith
to go to if one were looking to make a statement in silver; a master of theatricality that stopped just on the verge
of falling over the precipice into Victorian high kitsch.

This is silver in the grand style;
silver to make a room become
silent once the gasps have died
down!