A FINE GILT-SILVER TEAPOT AND COVER WITH CARVED WOOD HANDLE

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Result:

11.007 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Siam, very probably Bangkok, marked Zhong Shi Mo, 19th c.
H. 19,8 cm
Decorated throughout with different scenes of horses and riders and battle scenes amidst trees, houses and rocks. The base with incised mark. Weight: 892 gr.
Old Freiburg private collection, by tradition a gift from the Thai king Chulalongkorn (1853 - 1910) to the German Karl Bethge (1847 - 1900), director of the Royal Railway Department in Thailand
Compare Ho Wing Meng, Straits Chinese Silver (Singapore 2004), Fig. 135, page 166. We are grateful to Adrien von Ferscht of Chinese Export Silver for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. He notes the following for this piece: ‘While it was common in the latter half of the 19th century for affluent Siamese and members of the royal court regularly ordered bespoke items from a variety of Canton-based silversmiths, this is not a name I’ve yet recorded as being from Canton. Stylistically, it’s Siamese.‘ Very minor traces of use

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