Exquisite Antique Chinese Export Cantonese Solid Silver Salt Cellar; Hoaching c1860
Fine piecefeaturing fine quality all over hand chased scenes in 3 dimensional repousse depicting imperial courtly scenes.
The makers mark is stamped to the base; Hoaching (aka: Wo Hing; Hi Xing) of Sai Hing Hai Street, Canton; Old China Street, Canton; Club Street, Honam Island, Canton who operated circa 1825-1880
Hoaching was generally considered the best purveyor of carved ivory in Canton. His two sons ran the Honam Island shop between 1850 and 1870. The Cantonese Chinese name for the business was Wo Hing. Hoaching was a seller of various luxury decorative and jewellery items, such jade, carved ivory and sandalwood, lacquer ware, silver and gold. In this respect, Hoaching was a very similar retail operation to Wang Hing & Company, Cutshing and others.
This piece somewhat resembles the style of their carved ivory

Tactile and beautifully proportioned with a rim diameter of 45mm.

It is made from a good gauge of solid silver and feels heavy for its size at 29g

Exquisite Quality Antique Chinese Export Solid Silver Salt Cellar

I can post this to the USA or China for £10

I do combine postage as much as I can