A Fine & Rare Chinese Straits Silver Sireh Box, 19th Century, H.G.Beasley Collection. A tobacco or betel-nut box with hinged cover. The box covered in embossed decoration of high quality workmanship. The centre of the cover being a separate roundel of filigree surmounted by a semi-precious stone. Diameter of box 7cm.

Provenance: from the well-known H. G. Beasley Collection. Harry Geoffrey Beasely assembled his collection between 1895 & 1939. Following his death in 1939 the collection was widely dispersed with many pieces going to the British Museum, such was the quality of the collection. The accompanying label suggests this box was acquired from the “Wray Collection” in 1938.

Also from the collection of the late Brian Page (1938-2018), the well-known Oriental art and antiques dealer from Brighton.

For reference and details of similar items see the 1984 book “Straits Chinese Silver” by Ho Wing Meng.

Note: this is one of six lots of Straits silver from the H. G. Beasley Collection we are offering.