Page 895 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht
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A set of six rice wine
                                                                                          tot cups or tea cups -
                                                                                          again very much in a
                                                                                          traditional  style  and
                                                                                          of  particularly  heavy
                                                                                          gauge  silver  with  an
                                                                                          engraved  hibiscus
                                                                                          motif.











            A stunning Wu Hua tea set [below]; again this is quite different to
            anything that other Chinese retail silversmiths would have been
            offering  at  the  time.  The  back  of  each  spoon  handle  carries  the
            Wu Hua Tientsin mark.
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