A mid-19^th century Chinese Export silver salver, Canton circa 1860 retailed by Wang Hing

Qing dynasty, of shaped octofoil form with a shaped cavetto edge, all raised on four cast bamboo shoot decorated bracket feet. The broad rim with embossed decoration of varying sections of crustations with fish, flowering prunus with crows, and peonies. The field with flat chased decoration of eight panels, each with a differing scene; a fisherman at a river, storks, water lilies, a snake wrapped around bamboo, a philosopher below a peach tree, doves below bamboo and crabs around a bucket in front of roses. The centre with a flat chased circular vacant cartouche of bamboo. Marked to the reverse with retailer’s mark WH, 90 and artisan mark YI CHANG 仪昌.

Diameter – 21 cm / 8.25 inches

Weight – 285 grams / 9.16 ozt