A FINE CHINESE SILVER GOBLET KHECHEONG, CANTON, DATED 1856' ...

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£3,800

A FINE CHINESE SILVER GOBLET
KHECHEONG, CANTON, DATED 1856'
清 1856 年银杯
the bowl finely chased and engraved with a scene of ships, boats, figures and animals within a continuous landscape, centred by a cartouche inscribed ' Presented to, M. A Sinclair, by his Greatly Obliged Friend, G. G. Nicol, Canton 1856' below is a model of a steam ship, possibly HMS Coromandel which sailed Chinese waters in the mid 19th century
18cm high
537 grams.

PROVENANCE: From the Private Collection of the Late George Withers (1946-2023).