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GUEST: I brought a cup
that I had purchased
about 50 years ago in an
antique shop in Georgetown,

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District of Columbia. It was
a present for my soon-to-be
husband. I paid about $50. And

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I was told it was Vietnamese.
It was the first antique
I ever bought, but I
knew my husband-to-be

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was interested in antiques,
so... It just appealed to
me-- the artistic design, the

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dragon handle. I just liked it.

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APPRAISER: Well, what you've
brought today is a really
interesting and unusual example

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of a Chinese export silver cup
by Leeching in Guangdong, in
Hong Kong. So this qualifies

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as Qing Dynasty. The form
is very interesting in
that it's very atypical
of a form the Chinese

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would have been making for
export to England or America.
And perhaps the form could have

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indicated that this was made
for export to either the Turkish
market or the Russian market.

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So this is just a very
odd vase-y form, then
with the attached dragon
handle. And you mentioned

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the scene drew you to
it. And what we have here
is a very interesting
interior and exterior

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scene, the interior showing
preparations for a feast, and
the exterior showing guests on

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their way to the feast. The
manner of decoration is what we
call repoussé decoration. And

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you can see, if I tilt
this and you look inside,
that the decoration was
done by punching the

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metal out. And not only is it
decorated in the full round,
the silversmith marked his

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work, putting hallmarks on
the bottom. And the "LC" is
for Leeching. Examples come up

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from time to time on the
secondary auction market, and
can sometimes also be found in

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retail silver shops. If this
were in a retail silver shop
today, I would expect them to

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have a price of $2,500 on it.

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GUEST: Oh, my goodness. Oh!
(laughing): I'm so surprised.
My goodness. Wonderful. Well,

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I'm very pleased. My
husband was worth it and
I'll keep it. (laughs)

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APPRAISER: Keep him.

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GUEST: And him.
(laughs) Very good