Wonderful Chinese export silver dragon mug Hung Chong & Co Shanghai c 1890

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Wonderful Chinese export silver dragon mug Hung Chong & Co Shanghai c 1890:
$743.36

Description: A fine Chinese exportsilver mug of the highest quality with engraved dragon decoration, a leafcapped handle and an unengraved circular cartouche, on a raised foot.

Condition: In superb collector\'scondition with no damage or repair and very little wear. Good clear marks.

Maker: HUNGCHONG, Shanghai & Canton c1890 + silver character mark*

Dimensions: Height80mm, Diameter: 50mm. Weight 135g

* From: TwentiethCentury Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China:Their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Volume 1 - ArnoldWright - 1908:

\"HUNG CHONG and Co.,

Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths, etc.,11B, Nanking Road, Shanghai.

The wonderful proficiency of the Chinese inthe manufacture of gold and silver work, jewellery, ivory carvings, black woodand inlaid furniture, silk, embroidery, etc., finds, an excellent demonstrationin the large stock in the premises of Messrs. Hung Chong and Co. The range ofbeautiful articles exhibited here is an epitome of the highest achievements ofChinese skill and art, and affords a splendid selection to those on the outlookfor choice specimens of the most superior goods associated with the race. Thestock is submitted to inspection in a system of orderliness that cannot fail tobe admired, and the handsome showcases and other equipment impart to theestablishment an elegance thoroughly in keeping with its rich and lovelycontents.

The Chinese are clever craftsmen, and thesilver-ware which they manufacture is very popular with collectors of Easterncurios and souvenirs, by reason of its quaint beauty. Among the leading goldand silver smiths in Shanghai are Messrs. Hung Chong & Co., who deallargely, also, in blackwood furniture, embroideries, silk piece goods, &c.Their premises at No. 11B, Nanking Road, always present a very attractiveappearance. The business was established in 1892 by Mr. Fok Ying Chew, who soldit in 1906 to the present proprietor, Mr. Sum Luen-sing. The large trade nowcarried on necessitates the employment of fourteen assistants and forty workmen.Mr. Sum Luen-sing is the son of Mr. Sum Cheuk Sing, and was born in Macao in1871. He studied English in Shanghai, and at the age of sixteen joined the\" Limpu\" line of steamers. Alter remaining in this employment forthree years, he obtained a post with the \"Kangyue\" line. He joinedHung Chong & Co., as an assistant, in 1892. He is married, and has one sonand daughter.\"

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