MARK OF LIAN OR CHEN, LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FOR WANG HING, HONG KONG

Details

A rare Chinese enamelled silver megillah
Mark of Lian or Chen, late 19th or early 20th century, probably for Wang Hing, Hong Kong
The handle formed as a bamboo stem with engraved disc to the join with the hexagonal case, the case cloisonné enamelled in light green and deep blue with alternate panels of prunus and bamboo foliage, the handle to the scroll with ring pull and two clasps, the domed terminal with crenulated border and enamelled with further blue and green foliage and with ball finial, the scroll: ink on vellum, written in Sephardic Hebrew square script, vellum 5.8 cm high, text 4.7 cm high, 14 Lines per column, marked on base of case with an ideogram and an unidentified mark
overall length of case 17.5 cm.

Provenance

Acquired in China by Ezra Ezekiel Ezra (d. circa 1920)
thence by directly descent to his grandson, the present owner.

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Further details

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Lot Essay

In spite of the slight variations in the join of the handle to the case which may be an added strengthener and the slightly larger finial, this and the previous lot are so close in style and decoration as to suggest that they were originally supplied together to the present owner's grandfather by Wang Hing of Hong Kong. See the note of the previous lot.

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