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Collection of Chinese Export Silver Flatware retailed by Khe Cheong, Canton, China, mid-19th century
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Collection of Chinese Export Silver Flatware
Thirty-eight pieces in the 'Shell and Thread' pattern include six dinner forks, six salad forks, twelve place spoons, four teaspoons, two sauce ladles, one master butter knife, one set of tongs, six dinner knives with unidentified hallmarks on hollow silver handles and impressed "WAYLETT & MANNINGTON / 234 OXFORD ST" on steel blades; together with one large Fiddle pattern punch ladle with mark of Khe Cheong, approx. 81 total weighable troy oz.
Footnotes
Provenance
By descent through Mary Abigail Cook Sutton (1860-1945) of Essex County, Massachusetts, who was born in Whampoa (Huangpu), China.
Predominantly monogrammed "AEC" for Abigail Edwards Cook (1837-1909), wife of Captain James P. Cook (1821-92) of Salem, Massachusetts. The ladle appears to be engraved with initials E.C. and T.H., presumably for Captain Cook's sister Elizabeth Cook (1809-99) and her husband, Thomas Hunt (1805-70), another China Trade merchant from Salem.
Literature
"KHC" marks: H.A. Crosby Forbes, Chinese Export Silver, 1785-1885 (Milton: Museum of the American China Trade, 1975), fig. 247 no. 96; fig. 251 no. 122.

