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WANG HING; a Chinese silver belt made of rectangular plaques with canted corners, the twin main plaques decorated with dragons, length 75cm, approx 6.55ozt/203.5g.Condition Report: Please note that each plaque beside the main central buckle is a replacement that the vendor had made in silver and set in, otherwise the belt is in very good condition, clearly hallmarked and presented well.
nice 'antique' Chinese Zeewo signed lidded pot (incense burner) in marked silver with a dragons' decor - with its wooden base ZEEWO (werkzaam te Shangaï van circa 1900 tot 1940) mooie 'antieke' Chinese gedekselde pot in gemerkt massief zilver met drakendecor - ca 1900/10 - hoogte : 34 cm - gewicht : 1928 gram - met houten sokkel getekend prov : uit een oude Belgische collectie
A late 19th century Chinese silver swing handled table basket, of shaped circular form with repousse scrolling cloud decoration to the rim, having openwork loop hinged handle and standing upon four applied scrolling cloud feet, retailer Wang Hing & Company, further stamped 90 and with makers mark, dia.24cm, 17ozt
TWO CHINESE QING DYNASTY GILT-METAL HAIR PINS AND A COLLECTION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK. One hair pin with insects, butterflies and flowers, applied with red and green stones, in gilt-metal, the other in silver-coloured metal with dense leaves and flowers on a semi-circular mount, applied with coral and green stones, together with eleven ribbon-tied lucky Chinese coins, a pair of black embroidered silk heart-shaped ear muffs, an embroidered leather pouch, two lengths of cream coloured silk ribbon embroidered with yellow and pink butterflies and flowers, a blue silk hat embroidered with pink and green peony and insects (9) The hair pins with some losses to stones and to metalwork, some misshaping. The textiles and coin ornament with minor wear.
A GROUP OF FOUR CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK PURSES, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Comprising: an example in pale blue and indigo, suspending blue tassels, finely embroidered with a bat and butterflies, three embroidered with phoenix and birds amongst flowers in coloured and gold and silver thread, on cream ground with embroidered black borders Overall in good order. Some typical and relatively minor wear overall, majority of embroidery in good order, some very minor discolouration to cream silk.
A GROUP OF CHINESE JADE JADEITE JEWELLERY ITEMS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY. To include a graduated bead necklace with silver clasp, stamped 935 with safety chain; A 14ct yellow gold and jadeite pendant in the form of an insect, stamped 585; A pair of gilt metal and pear shaped jade drop earrings; A carved and pierced pendant with fruit and leafy scrolls. Necklace 50cm length. Pendant 5.5cm x 3.5cm. (4) In good overall condition.
A CHINESE MANDARIN CIVIL RANK BADGE, 19/20TH CENTURY. Depicting a silver pheasant for the fifth rank above waves with pine trees and sun, detailed in gold and silver thread. Mounted in a silk embroidered frame with green ground backing. Total size 35cm x 34cm. Overall good condition with only very minor loose threads in places.
TWO 20TH CENTURY CHINESE FRAMED SILK EMBROIDERIES. The first depicting a pheasant amongst flowering prunus, titled in black characters, on a cream silk ground, 60cm x 40cm, another mounted with assorted cut-out embroideries in coloured silk, gold and silver thread, depicting a dragon, a flaming pearl, a pheasant, bats and clouds, 25cm x 34 cm (2) Overall in good order. The second example with the cut out embroideries which is mounted on what appears to be a card backing has some discolouration to the edge of the backing. Otherwise there is some very minor wear overall.
THREE SILVER COINS. To include a Chinese silver dollar, 1934 Republic Period, featuring Sun Yat Sen, weight 26.8g; A George V 1935 silver jubilee crown, featuring St. George slaying dragon, weight 28.4g; Netherlands 2 1/2 Gulden 1930 Wilhelmina, weight 25 grams. Together with a metal ring mount which encased the Chinese coin. (4)
A GROUP OF CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK AND GAUZE CHILDREN'S ROBES, EARLY-LATE 20TH CENTURY. Comprising: an early 20th century orange silk robe with embroidered ivory silk collar, a cream silk gauze summer robe embroidered in blue tones with flowerheads, leaves and interlocking hexagons, a late 20th century pale green robe embroidered with large flower-sprays, within purple flower trim, a pink silk robe with bold flowers in silver and coloured threads, a red example with flowers in silver and gold thread, a dark blue silk robe with machine woven flower-sprays and a black silk robe embroidered with roundels of cranes below waves, with red and silver thread tassels (7) Orange robe with some areas of wear around collar, lining and sleeves, including a loose striped ribbon at one cuff.Gauze robe - with some minor staining and discolouration overall, both sleeves with small tear at fabric join, typical wear.Black example - some minor staining to pink lining, damage and pulling to black toggles, some wear overall. Red example - red silk tie at side is threadbare, thread at shoulder has pulled loose and with further smaller areas of loose and pulled metallic thread, slight tear to underarm.Overall there is some typical wear and small areas of pulled/loose threads.
A GROUP OF CHINESE ITEMS, 19/29TH CENTURY. To include a brass lock and key, late 19th century, with original purchase invoice from Contes D'Orient Hong Kong 1997; An amber model of a pig; Two silver figures carrying baskets, stamped 925; Together with a knife and chopstick set. Amber weight 88.3 grams. Chopstick set length 25cm . (5)
TWO 20TH CENTURY CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK SKIRTS AND A JACKET. The first skirt in black silk embroidered with pheasants perched on rockwork above waves and flowers, with pink cotton waistband, a red skirt embroidered in silver thread with birds and flowers, with silvered tassels at hem, the black silk jacket embroidered in silver thread with birds perched on flowering branches, edged in scrollwork, with red silk toggles and pink lining (3) The black jacket with some tearing to pink lining and small area of tearing to red seam at back of hem, some small area of pulled threads, with a more noticeable patch of losses and pulling to one shoulder. The red skirt with wear, holes and tearing to white waistband and further holes, probably moth damage to red silk, including several tears, some separating at the seam.The black skirt with pink waistband with some minor loose threads, minor wear.
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER Comprising; A pair of hexagonal condiment vases, 8cm high, watering can caster, 4cm high, quatrefoil caster, 5cm high,pair of white metal Burmese salt cellars,5.5cm diameter and a white metal purse,cast with chrysanthemum 7 x 10cm (7) Condition Report:one condiment vase lacks cover, the other is off, the salts are badly tarnished / eroided, holes to the body. Some tarnish to the watering can (marked on handle) also tarnish to the body of the capped salt.
Silbermontiertes, emailliertes, steinbesetztes Prunk-Jian, China, 19. Jhdt. Lange, zweischneidige, beidseitig gekehlte Klinge mit silbertauschiertem Drachen bzw. gegenseitig chinesischer Schriftkartusche am Ansatz. Parierstange und Knauf aus filigranverziertem, mehrfarbig emailliertem Silber. Der rochenhautbezogene Griff mit zwei türkis- und korallenbesetzten Silberbändern. Mehrteilig gearbeitete, vollflächig floral filigranverzierte und teilweise emaillierte Silberscheide mit reichhaltigem Besatz aus gefassten Korallen-, Türkis-, Malachit-, Lapislazuli- sowie Karneol-Cabochons. An einer Schmalseite zwei kleine Steine verloren. Länge 103 cm. A Chinese silver-mounted and enamelled stone-set jian, 19th century A Chinese silver-mounted and enamelled stone-set jian, 19th century Long, double-edged blade, fullered on both sides, the forte decorated with a silver-damascened dragon on one side and a cartouche with Chinese characters on the other. The cross-guard and pommel of polychrome enamelled silver executed in filigree. The ray-skin covered grip with two silver straps set with turquoises and corals. The part-enamelled silver scabbard composed of several pieces, decorated all-over with floral filigree work and profusely set with coral, turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli and carnelian cabochons. Two small stones missing on one of the narrow sides. Condition: II
The most important India General Service medal awarded to Ensign Henry Haversham Austen (later Lieutenant-Colonel Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.), who was gazetted to the 24th Foot in 1851 and served as A.D.C. to General Godwin in the 2nd Burmese War, and later on special duty with the Bhootan Field Force; as a young British army surveyor he ‘undertook one of the most remarkable expeditions in British mountaineering history; not only did he open the way to the mountain now called K2 but, beyond the village of Skardu, gateway to the Karakoram, he became the first Westerner to explore the world’s most extensive and awesome glacier system; explorations in Ladakh, Tibet, Bhutan and Burma soon followed’ India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Pegu, Bhootan (Ensign H. H. Austen. 24th Foot. A.D.C.) second clasp loose on ribbon as issued, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, toned good very fine £4,000-£5,000 --- Henry Haversham Austen was born at Teignmouth, Devon, on 6 July 1834, son of Robert A. C. Austen, F.R.S., a distinguished geologist, and Maria, daughter of General Godwin, a marriage that produced no fewer than 17 siblings to Haversham between 1834 and 1856, one of whom, Frederick, was killed at Isandhlwana. Haversham, by which name he was always known, was educated at R.M.C. Sandhurst which establishment he entered at the age of 13. Gentleman Cadet H. H. Austen was appointed as Ensign in the 24th Foot on 26 December 1851, and in June 1852 set out for Burma, as aide-de-camp to his grandfather General Godwin, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in the second Anglo-Burmese war. Following the death of General Godwin in 1854 his name was changed to Godwin-Austen by personal decree of Queen Victoria. He was appointed a Topographical Assistant to the Trigonometrical Survey of India and joined the Kashmir Survey party in 1857, with whom he surveyed a very large extent of country in Kashmir and Baltistan. In the latter country the enormous glaciers at the head of the Shigar river and Hunza Nagar frontier, which included the Baltoro glacier, which he was the first to discover, coming down in part from the second highest mountain in the Himalayas and named after him [since renamed as ‘K2’]. In 1862 he surveyed the lofty country of Rupshu and Zaskar in Ladakh, and in July and August of that year he made 13 different ascents of a mean height of 17,900 feet, the highest peak, Mata, being 20,607 feet. The following year he took up the Changchenmo and carried the topography to the eastern end of the Pang Kong lake, close up to Rudok in Chinese territory, where he was met and stopped by the Lhassan Governor. During the winter of 1863-64 he was on special duty with the last mission to Bhutan, and mapped the country between Darjeeling and Punakha, the capital. In 1864-65, having accompanied the political mission of Sir Ashley Eden to the Rajas of Bhutan, he served on special duty with the left column of the Bhutan field force as Surveyor, and was present at the storm and capture of of the fort of Dalimkot and the stockade of Chamoorchi in December 1864. In 1866, and for the following ten years, he was in charge of Survey Operations in the Garo, Khasi, Jaintia, North Cachar and Naga Hills, and Manipur, including in 1874 the expedition against the Dafia tribe at the base of the Eastern Himalayas, when a large area of new country was mapped and many distant peaks fixed. He was President of Section E (Geography) of the British Association, 1883; President of the Maalacological Society, 1897-99; President of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1908-09; awarded the Founders’ medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1910 for his exploration work. He was author of On the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of India, 1882-1920; (jointly with Dr W. T. Blandford) of The Fauna of British India, vol. Mollusca, 1908; together with some 130 papers in the Journals of various Scientific Societies on Geology and Physical Features, Ethnology and Natural History. Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen died at his house near Godalming in the Surrey hills on 2 December 1923. Sold with a copy of Catherine Moorehead’s outstanding 2013 biography of this important but long-forgotten explorer, The K2 Man (and his molluscs) The extraordinary life of Haversham Godwin-Austen, the dust jacket of which carries an excellent précis of the story to be discovered therein: ‘Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), from an ancient and interesting Surrey aristocratic family with royal connections, not only found the first way to the savage mountain, K2, but went on to be the first serious explorer of the Karakoram, Ladakh, Western Tibet, Bhutan, Northern Burma and Assam. He broke the Asiatic high-altitude summiting record three times, using a ‘garden hatchet’ as an ice-axe, saw his assistant killed by headhunters and socialised with everyone from his ‘coolies' to the Maharajah of Kashmir. Back in England, he became one of the UK's greatest Natural Historians, a Darwinist collector among collectors of geological and ornithological specimens. His collection of freshwater molluscs forms the basis of all modern science in the subject. And he became one of the UK's greatest surveyors, covering over 22,000 square miles of new territory, including 23 new glaciers and at least two dozen first ascents of peaks over 5000m. Remarkably, he also found time to paint a vast portfolio of watercolours, including the first close sighting of K2, described by the British Library as a 'national treasure’. (Several of these watercolours are illustrated in this book.) His personal life was equally interesting: three marriages - to an Afghan landowner's daughter, an English socialite, then a civil servant's daughter 23 years younger than himself - were complicated by religious conversions from Anglicanism to Islam then to Buddhism. His strong character as a scholar at great London institutions such as the Natural History Museum is still the stuff of legend, while his bankruptcy in later life required the selling of the 'family pile’, the magnificent, royally-furnished Shalford Park. And thanks to a youthful indiscretion in Kashmir, he harboured a dark secret which came back to haunt him near the end of his long and colourful life. This is the first and authorised biography of an outstanding man. Godwin-Austen's private papers are being made public for the first time. They prove that he was one of the UK's greatest explorers, on a par with Sir Richard Burton, while surpassing the explorations of David Livingstone, Captain Cook or Captain Scott. For mountaineers, scientists, students of biography and historians of the Raj and the Great Game, this biography offers new and original material - a 'must' for the explorer's bookshelf.’
CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original dark blue silk boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works in 12 volumes. (14)CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987. 2 volumes, 4to (352 x260mm). Coloured plates. Original dark blue silk boards, the upper covers with Chinese characters stamped in blind, the spines lettered in silver, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works of related interest in 12 volumes, namely Les Hautes Époques de l' Art Chinoir d' après les Collections du Musée Cernuschi (Paris, [n.d.], 4to, plates loose as issued in original portfolio, ties), Collection of Rare Old Chinese Porcelains Collected by Sir William Bennett, K.C.V.O., Purchased and Exhibited by Gorer (London, 1910, 8vo, coloured plates, original green cloth gilt, [?]lacks front free endpaper), Helen White's Snuff Bottles from China. The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection (London, 1990, 4to, coloured plates, original silk boards, dust-jacket, slipcase, FIRST EDITION), Wang Shixiang's Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture. Ming and Early Dynasties (Hong Kong, 1990, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original buckram, slipcase, trade edition); and including 4 volumes (only) from The Baur Collection (namely, Pierre-F. Schneeberger's Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones (Geneva, 1976), B. W. Robinson's Japanese Sword-Fittings and Associated Metalwork (1980), John Ayers' Japanese Ceramics (1982) and Pierre-F. Scheeberger's Japanese Lacquer (1984)); and the catalogue of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (New York, Sotheby's, September 11-19, 1997, 3 volumes, coloured illustrations, original wrappers, slipcase, price-list loosely-inserted). (14)
A collection of silver jewellery, rings including buckle and a Chinese example set with cinnabar lacquer (28g), Victorian agate bracelet, marcasite brooch, cinnabar lacquer plaque depicting a dragon, curb link bracelet (31g), Art Deco paste clip, enamelled silver 1887 crown, filigree brooch, etc
A group of jewellery, including: an Edwardian 15ct gold seed pearl brooch/pendant, suspended on a gilt metal curb chain; a rolled gold Waltham fob watch; a silver link bracelet; a woven hair memorial brooch with half pearl border; a gilt metal Brazilian snake chain; a curb link chain; a Chinese hinged bangle with later red plastic sections to gold mounts; etc. (a lot)
A group of jewellery, including: a Chinese silver panel necklace, the repoussé panels depicting bamboo, dragons, fish, turtles, figures, etc., stamped Wang Hing 90, length 43.5cm; a gold mounted carved and pierced lozenge shaped jadeite jade plaque ring; a silver gilt jadeite jade brooch; a silver jadeite jade carved and pierced panel brooch; a silver single stone coral (corallium rubrum) ring; etc. (a lot)Please note that the jadeite jade has not been tested for natural colour origin
An extensive collection of British and foreign coinage, including George IIII silver crown 1821, Victorian crown and half crown, with Jubilee head, 1889, a George IV crown, 1821, various later crowns, Chinese coins and a Chinese gilt lacquered rectangular casket, Egyptian silver and other coins, British predecimal coins etc, (qty).
A pair of Chinese white metal bud vases, modelled as five claw dragons supporting the tapering branch with planished decoration, height 15cm, two hallmarked silver miniature pepperettes, Eastern white metal miniature dishes, a pair of Russian silver open salts, hallmarked silver miniature cream jug and two white metal, possibly Indian, salt and pepper shakers (qty).

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