A GILT-SILVER FILIGREE 'DRAGON' NECKLACE

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Rev. Victor Farmer (1898-1977) The first acquisitions of the Farmer Collection begun in the late 19th century when Rev. Victor Farmer's father, William Farmer, went to Hong Kong in 1888 as manager of the Peak Hotel and later built and managed the Victoria Hotel. Victor Farmer, after the World War I where he was unscathed as a subaltern in the Suffolk Regt., joined Brunner Mondlate ICI in 1921, and married in 1925. The Farmers first moved to Canton and subcequently to Harbin, eventually settling in Tianjin for many years, where Victor Farmer's collecting started. He then became Chairman of the company and moved to Shanghai. After the People's Republic of China was established, the Farmers were granted an exit visa in 1953, but sadly Mrs. Farmer died the same year. Unusually he was allowed to take his entire collection with him out of the People's Republic. He spent a short time in Hong Kong, and returned to UK in 1954, where he took Holy Orders in 1965. During this time he became a member of the Oriental Ceramic Society, and many of the pieces in the collection were exhibited. He retired finally in 1975 and passed away two years later in 1977. Lots 452 - 467 offered in this sale are from the Farmer Collection.

A GILT-SILVER FILIGREE 'DRAGON' NECKLACE

19TH/20TH CENTURY

Details

A GILT-SILVER FILIGREE 'DRAGON' NECKLACE
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Finely woven with gilt-silver wires inset with kingfisher feather to form a double-headed dragon, its body divided into four sections inset with coral and malachite divided by pearl beads, the dragon-head terminals confronting spheres forming hinges attaching to the two pivoting front sections each backed by lapis lazuli and terminating in lion cubs seated on their haunches, suspending tourmaline and rose quartz pendants
7½ in. (19 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Rev. Victor Farmer

Literature

Art of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, plate 36, no. 83

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramics Society Exhibition, Art of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, no. 83

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Sale room notice

Please note that this has been inset with turquoise, not malachite.

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