18th Century Chinese Silver Filigree and Enamel Lidded Basket

 

18th Century Chinese Silver Filigree and Enamel Lidded Basket.

(Post in Preparation).

Previously with Pushkin Antiques of Tonbridge Wells.

I am very grateful to Alexander Pushkin for allowing me to use his excellent photographs.

The Mainwaring Motto - "Devant si je puis"

The quality of this basket resembles the style of a well respected Canton retail silversmith Cutshing, who was renowned for creating enamelled and jeweled filigree items for the European Royal households, the Russian imperial court, Arab Sultanates and Maharajah's palaces. A very similar example can be seen at the Hermitage Museum (Winters Palace, St-Petersburg) that was once used by Catherine the Great (reign 1729-1796).

The top of the lid has an oval cartouche engraved with the Mainwaring coat of arms.

Height: 23cm, Width: 26cm.

Images and text above from:

https://www.pushkinantiques.com/sold-chinese/antique-18thc-rare-chinese-solid-silver-enamel-lidded-basket-cutshing-c1790

This piece is an  example of excellent 18th Century Chinese Filigree and displays several different techniques of Chinese Filigree.

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Late 18th Century/ Early 19th Century Silver Filigree Basket, Canton

provenance Winton House, East Lothian.

With Netherlands Dealers Zebregs Roell, April 2023.

I am very grateful to Messrs Zebregs Roell for allowing me to use their photographs.

With an inscription reading: “To Miss Nisbet Hamilton on the occasion of her marriage, with the respectful good wishes of her Residenters on her Winton Estate, September 1888”.

 

​H. 15 x L. 26 cms.

https://www.zebregsroell.com/chinese-filigree-basket-silver