Lot 5692

Description

China, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), silver drum shaped sycee ingot, Shanxi Province, trough ingot, a local tax ingot X'ian Prefecture, one large rectangular block of characters, this cast by Smith-Yong Xingqing, flattened base oval sycee, reading on right side 'Xi An Shou', left side Yong Xing Qing' and centre Zhen Zheng, five taels or 5.25 ounces (163.3 g), height 44mm, width 38.5mm, depth 21mm, (Cribb 499, type XLIIB, Pl.51), for similar size and characters. Nearly very fine and rare.

Ex Mavin International, Singapore, Auction No.5, March 27, 2004 (lot 240 part).