Lot 115 , A Chinese famille rose rectangular tray with hongmu frame, early 20th century

A Chinese famille rose rectangular tray with hongmu frame, early 20th century, painted with warriors on horseback in a landscape, inscribed upper left, the frame with re-entrant corners, 40.5cm x 25.2cm, wear to enamels

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).
£150-250

Condition:
There’s wear to the enamel colours of the porcelain tray, the wood surround is covering some burst bubbles to glaze on the edge of the tray, otherwise in good condition.

Sold for £380