Lot 260
LARGE BLUE AND WHITE AND PEACHBLOOM 'GRAPEVINE' CHARGER
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 30 November 2015 at 10:00 GMT
Description
decorated with clusters of grapes and vine leaves on scrolling and twining branches within a double ring at the rim
Dimensions
46.5cm diam
Footnote
Provenance:
The Collection of Vernon Walker (1891-1960). Thence by family descent.
Vernon Walker was a Scottish railway engineer, who arrived in Hong Kong in 1921 to join the Hong Kong Tramways as an assistant workshop superintendent. He then worked his way up to become Chief Engineer in 1939, thus contributing directly to the construction of this city icon. By family repute he put together a collection of Chinese works of art between the two Wars. However he was then interned in the POW camp in Stanley together with his wife Doris and daughter Veronica, and had to leave most of his collection behind. Only a few objects, among them the porcelain offered in this sale, were saved and brought back to the United Kingdom, and have been treasured by his descendants since.