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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 68162, member: 29"]Spring, you've described precisely one of the methods used by past Chinese silversmiths. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Don't forget that the Chinese were masters at what was effectively mass production of lovely quality stuff - this was made for the export or tourist trade. Similar parameters apply to all sorts of other things, such as porcelain and even ivory. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your multiple part method goes back centuries or even millenia - the item isn't glued, obviously, but may be silver soldered or attached using heat, then polished out. </p><p><br /></p><p>And indeed, if you look at old British silver, you see similar techniques. We used smithing techniques, hand embossing and chasing, and engine turning. Lost wax was mostly used for jewellery. </p><p><br /></p><p>Others will know more, but lost wax wasn't used much by the Chinese, I think, certainly not for things like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing that said to me this wasn't brand new was the sheer quality of the chasing and embossing. That with the wear on the marks, general wear and the colour of the silver says a great deal. (Mind you, there's some super modern silver made in China.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Modern "fake" Chinese silver is usually rhodium plated or has a high rhodium content. it's super shiny and smells wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 68162, member: 29"]Spring, you've described precisely one of the methods used by past Chinese silversmiths. ;) Don't forget that the Chinese were masters at what was effectively mass production of lovely quality stuff - this was made for the export or tourist trade. Similar parameters apply to all sorts of other things, such as porcelain and even ivory. Your multiple part method goes back centuries or even millenia - the item isn't glued, obviously, but may be silver soldered or attached using heat, then polished out. And indeed, if you look at old British silver, you see similar techniques. We used smithing techniques, hand embossing and chasing, and engine turning. Lost wax was mostly used for jewellery. Others will know more, but lost wax wasn't used much by the Chinese, I think, certainly not for things like this. The thing that said to me this wasn't brand new was the sheer quality of the chasing and embossing. That with the wear on the marks, general wear and the colour of the silver says a great deal. (Mind you, there's some super modern silver made in China.) Modern "fake" Chinese silver is usually rhodium plated or has a high rhodium content. it's super shiny and smells wrong.[/QUOTE]
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