Chen Quin Jack

Saved from the great Tingha auction of 1978, are these domestic objects from Chen Quin and Mary (nee Fuller) Jack’s home at Hymen Villa.

They include: soy sauce bottles, ginger and pickling jars, Chinese choppers, baskets and decorative soup spoons.

• Spouted brown stoneware soy sauce or oil jar, made in China between 1850 and 1875
• Liquor bottle, Chinese brown-glazed stoneware 
• Wide-mouthed jar, Chinese brown-glazed stoneware
• Straight-sided jars and lids, Chinese brown-glazed stoneware
• Barrel jar green glazed stoneware
• Chinese Ceramic Ginger Jar, c1800s
• Chinese bamboo wicker baskets
• 19thC Chinese porcelain hand-painted soup spoons in Mandarin Rose Medallion design
• A collection of Chinese choppers or meat cleavers

Chinese Porcelain and ceramics

Chinese Porcelain Marks: I found this site a great reference point for details and dates of ceramics

Other Family Collections

There are two hexagonal Chinese tin canisters, possibly for Longjing Tea, in the collection of Denis Gaibraith, a descendant of Jack, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a family reunion in 2018.