A CHINESE SOAPSTONE LIBATION CUP LATE QING DYNASTY Carved as a deep lotus leaf surrounded with...

A CHINESE SOAPSTONE LIBATION CUP

LATE QING DYNASTY

Carved as a deep lotus leaf surrounded with flowerheads and leaves, their stems tied together to the side with a branch of a fruiting loquat, together with a wood stand formed as further lotus leaves, flowerheads and a rice ear, 11cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay GCB, KCMG, CVO, PC,1877-1945, and thence by descent. Sir Ronald Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat, he was the British Ambassador to Turkey from 1925-26 and to Germany from 1926-28; from 1928-30, he was Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and from 1930-39 the British Ambassador to the United States of America.