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Salt Dish

1810-1830
Lynchong (Chinese (active Guangzhou), 1810–1830)
This piece was made for Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, a Philadelphia merchant involved in the China trade, and it bears the mark of Lynchong, a Canton silversmith active between 1810 and 1830.

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