Period:Unknown Production date:1830 (circa)
Materials:silver
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 12 millimetres Length: 39 millimetres Weight: 72.32 grammes Width: 25 millimetres
Description:
Small silver Chinese 2-ounce tax ingot with a Russian overstamp. The ingot is of a type known as a ‘Gansu province waisted ingot’ (in Chinese: Gansu yaoding), on account of its shape and place of origin. The two Chinese stamps indicate that it was made in Lixian county, and give the name of the smith who made it. The Russian stamp obliterates all but the last character ‘shao’ of his name. The Russian inscription and date is not fully visible.
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![图片[1]-ingot BM-2000-0706.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00934995_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-ingot BM-2000-0706.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00934996_001.jpg)
Comments:M. Bauer and M.P. Pelliot, “Lingots d’argent a inscriptions chinoises”, Revue des arts asiatiques Vol. 2, No. 4 (Dec 1925), pp. 10-13 (7 pages)Published by: École française d’Extrême-Orient. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43475309 – records irregular ingots of silver bearing Chinese inscriptions found at Rajdestvenskii, Solikansk District, Perm govt., Russia, in 1851, and at Tchigirob, Tcherdynsk Canton, Perm govt, Russia, in 1914. Joe Cribb’s ‘Catalogue of Sycee in the British Museum’ (1992), lists five examples of Gansu province waisted ingots: two in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; another reported by the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin in Chinese Central Asia; two more in the British Museum collection (one from the Kann collection, and one in the British Museum collection since before the 1870s). They are all two-ounce local tax ingots. A similar Russian stamp is found on the base of another silver ingot listed in Cribb 1993, no. XLIII.B.558 (plate 52).
Materials:silver
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 12 millimetres Length: 39 millimetres Weight: 72.32 grammes Width: 25 millimetres
Description:
Small silver Chinese 2-ounce tax ingot with a Russian overstamp. The ingot is of a type known as a ‘Gansu province waisted ingot’ (in Chinese: Gansu yaoding), on account of its shape and place of origin. The two Chinese stamps indicate that it was made in Lixian county, and give the name of the smith who made it. The Russian stamp obliterates all but the last character ‘shao’ of his name. The Russian inscription and date is not fully visible.
IMG
Comments:M. Bauer and M.P. Pelliot, “Lingots d’argent a inscriptions chinoises”, Revue des arts asiatiques Vol. 2, No. 4 (Dec 1925), pp. 10-13 (7 pages)Published by: École française d’Extrême-Orient. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43475309 – records irregular ingots of silver bearing Chinese inscriptions found at Rajdestvenskii, Solikansk District, Perm govt., Russia, in 1851, and at Tchigirob, Tcherdynsk Canton, Perm govt, Russia, in 1914. Joe Cribb’s ‘Catalogue of Sycee in the British Museum’ (1992), lists five examples of Gansu province waisted ingots: two in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; another reported by the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin in Chinese Central Asia; two more in the British Museum collection (one from the Kann collection, and one in the British Museum collection since before the 1870s). They are all two-ounce local tax ingots. A similar Russian stamp is found on the base of another silver ingot listed in Cribb 1993, no. XLIII.B.558 (plate 52).
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