Lot 56 , A late 19th century Chinese export white metal christening mug, engraved 'WAHM, (William Moule) Tennis 1892', maker Cumshing

A late 19th century Chinese export white metal christening mug, engraved 'WAHM, (William Moule) Tennis 1892', maker Cumshing, with faux bamboo handle and engraved with dragon amongst clouds, height 84mm, 140 grams.
Provenance -
This item is one of many Chinese objects collected and owned by the eminent Moule family; who travelled from England to China as missionaries in the mid-1800s, and lived and worked there until the early 1920s. The items were subsequently passed down to their present-day English descendants, the Gurneys. The Ven. Dr Arthur Evans Moule (1836-1918) was a missionary in China for nearly fifty years and was Archdeacon of Mid-China. He was also a poet and wrote several notable books* about China. He and his wife had six sons, one of whom, William Augustus Handley Moule (1870-1946), was the headmaster of the CMS Anglo-Chinese School in Shanghai for 34 years, as well as a first-class sportsman!

* Three of his major books are The Glorious Land (1891), New China and Old (3d ed., 1902), and Half a Century in China (1911).
£120-180