Chinese Export Silver Dragon Tripod Bowl by Zhuo, Canton (Guangzhou) c.1900

This exceptional silver bowl is chased with panels depicting dragons, bamboo stalks and chrysanthemums, is raised on three dragon-form scrolled legs, was made by Zhuo, an artisan workshop in Canton (now knows as Guangzhou) and was retailed by Kl - Kam Longm [or Gan Long, in mandarin] in Hong Kong, at around 1900. The bowl on sale is the perfect example of virtuosic execution of complex traditional motifs guided by the English and American taste at the beginning of the 20th century. A dragon stemmed bowl by the same artisan maker is illustrated in Kwan. S. (2018) Chinese Export Silver – The Muwen Tang Collection, Hong Kong: Muwen Tang Fine Arts Publication Ltd, p.480. Another useful references for the work of Zhuo is Marlowe, A.J. (1990) Chinese Export Silver: catalogue of an exhibition at the galleries of John Sparks.