ANTIQUE 19thC CHINESE EXPORT SOLID SILVER GOBLET, WOSHING c.1870
Antique late-19th Century Chinese export solid silver wine goblet, impressive and exceptionally fine quality, fully chased and embossed with a dense battle scenes and receptions before scholars & nobility, cup resting on a highly decorative entwining dragon stem, foot chased with clowds and the cup with reeded boarders. The front bearing a shield shaped presentation plaque and engraved with Chinese charachters. Hallmarked Chinese silver (900+ silver standard), Artisan mark, Retailer WS (WoShing), Swan import mark.
Reference Number: A8595
Antique late-19th Century Chinese export solid silver wine goblet, impressive and exceptionally fine quality, fully chased and embossed with a dense battle scenes and receptions before scholars & nobility, cup resting on a highly decorative entwining dragon stem, foot chased with clowds and the cup with reeded boarders. The front bearing a shield shaped presentation plaque and engraved with Chinese charachters. Hallmarked Chinese silver (900+ silver standard), Artisan mark, Retailer WS (WoShing), Swan import mark.
Reference Number: A8595
Antique late-19th Century Chinese export solid silver wine goblet, impressive and exceptionally fine quality, fully chased and embossed with a dense battle scenes and receptions before scholars & nobility, cup resting on a highly decorative entwining dragon stem, foot chased with clowds and the cup with reeded boarders. The front bearing a shield shaped presentation plaque and engraved with Chinese charachters. Hallmarked Chinese silver (900+ silver standard), Artisan mark, Retailer WS (WoShing), Swan import mark.
Reference Number: A8595
DESCRIPTION
Antique late-19th Century Chinese export solid silver wine goblet, impressive and exceptionally fine quality, fully chased and embossed with a dense battle scenes and receptions before scholars & nobility, cup resting on a highly decorative entwining dragon stem, foot chased with clowds and the cup with reeded boarders. The front bearing a shield shaped presentation plaque and engraved with Chinese charachters. Hallmarked Chinese silver (900+ silver standard), Artisan mark, Retailer WS (WoShing), Swan import mark.
Woshing was an important manufacturing and retailing silversmith in Shanghai and Canton. Common mistakes in the transliteration of Chinese silver marks in English caused several names for Woshing, such as Wo Shing, Woo Shing and Wah Shing.
Woshing silver is excellently crafted and was made in most of the patterns popular in the export market, such as bamboo, dragons, cranes, floral motifs. Apart from high-quality silverware, the firm was also famous for retailing luxury items in carved jade, gold and specialised in trophies and celebration silver.
Alongside with traditionally decorated silver tableware and flatware, of particular interest were pieces with creative and unconventional decors and forms. Bowls, tazzas, boxes in the modified Neo-classical manner were intricately crafted with realistically modelled birds, frogs and other animals in high relief. Such Woshing works are considered to be one of the most unusual among the Chinese export silver.
Although the full list of artisans working for the firm is impossible to make, it is well known that numerous Woshing silver pieces with outstanding enamels were created in cooperation with the respected silversmith Huang Qiu Ji.
According to the scholar Adrien Von Ferscht, the firm was on top four of the most notable Chinese retail silversmiths in the 19th century alongside Wong Hing, Poh Hing and Chong Woo.
CONDITION
In Great Condition - No Damage.
SIZE
Height: 21cm
Width: 10cm
Weight: 345g