Silver tray with two handles, China for export, 19th - 20th century European-style two-handled poly-lobe tray, with embossed and engraved reserves on the rim, alternating a geometric motif with one of cranes, pines and lingzhi mushrooms. The bottom of the top is engraved with a four-clawed dragon in the clouds, spitting foaming waves from which a carp emerges, recalling the legend of the carp and the dragon. It stands on four "ball" feet. Below are two hallmarks in Chinese ideograms used by the Lao Qing Yun firm in Tientsin (p. 462-463 5 Adrien von Ferscht). Length: 50 cm; weight: 1300 g