A CANTON IVORY SEWING BOX, HINGED COVER AND UTENSILS

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A CANTON IVORY SEWING BOX, HINGED COVER AND UTENSILS
19TH CENTURY

The box elaborately carved on the cover and the four sides in high relief with lively scenes of a festive gathering with numerous figures and animals among pavilions and fruiting trees, each landscape framed by a floral border, the cover with a central oval medallion enclosing a ship above the cursive initials HFP and below the motto Deo Adjuvante, the interior with a drawer and a removable tray containing small boxes, spools, thimbles and other sewing utensils, the box with paktong fittings (cracks infilled)
12 1/4 in. (31 cm.) wide

Provenance

M.A. and D.G. Handy, Moorbath Manor

Lot Essay

The armorial bears the mark of the Viscount, Baron Exmouth.

Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms, 29 October 1995, lot 543 and an octagonal ivory sewing box included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition, Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection, Catalogue, no. 178.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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