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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