The Collector's Guide to Chinese Export Silver 1785 - 1940
- Author(s): Adrien von Ferscht
- Category: Metals
- Publisher: Scotish Center for China Research
- Publish year: 2013
- ISBN: 9678000007605
- Number of Pages: 243
Chinese Export Silver is without doubt the most complicated and convoluted silver category that ever existed! It is also a silver category that has so much history attached to it, so much so that it is a superb vehicle to demonstrate the multi-faceted history of China across a wide spectrum of many disciplines. If one takes ethnography, religion or any single facet of Chinese history, one will find Chinese Export Silver has a connection.
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INDEX
THE QUALITY OF SILVER
THE RELEVANCE OF PAKTONG
THE TREATY OF NANKING
THE COMPLEX HIERARCHY OF THE CHINA TRADERELATIVE TO THE CHINESE EXPORT SILVER TRADE
CATALOGUE OF MAKERS'MARKS
INTRODUCTION
REFERENCE GUIDE TO MAKERS'MARKS
TU MAO XING....
KWONG WA ....
THE LOST WORLD OF THE SILVERSMITHS & SILVER EMPORIA IN CHINA
SUN SHING OF CANTON
CUTSHING
WE WE WC
WANG HING
TU MAO XING
BIBLIOGRAPHY &REFERENCES