Featured Chinese Export Silver Coaster

About 4 1/2" wide so I guess a coaster or small tray?
Any good sources with marks on Chinese silver? Any idea if it s sterling or other fineness?
Thanks

 

Oh, very pretty!

 

Here are a couple of sites with Chinese Export Silver marks:

http://www.925-1000.com/chinex_marks.html

http://www.cesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forbes251.jpg
http://www.cesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forbes252.jpg
http://www.cesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forbes253.jpg
http://www.cesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forbes254.jpg
http://www.cesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forbes255.jpg

--- Susan

 

Thanks. I'll check those marks. Actually, the motif has nothing Chinese and the characters could have been used by Japanese or Korean maker. The star like design maybe suggests the piece was made for the Islamic market?

 

Perhaps a pin tray/dish and from the look of it, suspect it's Straits Chinese silver - if you scroll down to the second to last picture on the link below, there is a tazza with a very similar bowl: http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/chinese-export-silversmiths-masters-art-tazza

~Cheryl