Antique Chinese silver napkin ring
Antique Chinese silver napkin ring
A finely detailed antique Chinese silver napkin ring decorated with seated figures playing a board game amid a landscape showing bamboo, palms, pine trees and a Chinese house. The ring also features a plain oval cartouche could be engraved.
The mark inside the ring is for Wang Hing and silver quality/purity mark: 90 (90 standard, 900/1000).
Wang Hing was was the trading name chosen by the Lo family, an upper-middle-class wealthy merchant family who were specialists in trading jade, who established a retail silversmith business in Canton soon after 1852. The business evolved to become the best known and most prolific maker of export silver during the late China Trade period. Towards the end of the 19th century Wang Hing exhibited silver at international exhibitions and opened a flagship store in Hong Kong in around 1920.
Dimensions:
c1910
Canton
Excellent
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