Live Auction 5986Christie's Interiors
A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER GOBLET OF MILITARY INTEREST
Lot 85

A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER GOBLET OF MILITARY INTEREST

MARK OF KHECHEONG, CANTON, CIRCA 1860

Closed7 September 2010

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GBP 625

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A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER GOBLET OF MILITARY INTEREST
MARK OF KHECHEONG, CANTON, CIRCA 1860
Chased with panels of birds amidst foliage, flowers and scrolls around the trumpet foot, applied with crested disc engraved with pair of clasped hands symbolising friendship, inscribed around rim From Col. Hope Graham
6 in. high (15 cm.)
11.5 oz. (356 gm.)

Specialist note

Colonel Hope Graham of the 59th Foot landed outside Canton in 1857 during the China War(1856-60), commanding the second brigade which comprised a mixed force of British and Indian troops. Graham was one of the first officers to scale the walls of the East or Linn Fort in the attack on Chinese defences.