as lot 128 went under the hammer,
at Tennants auction rooms in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, the lot in question was a blue and white bottle vase, made for the Qianlong Emperor around 1730, the seller’s grandmother, Lady Ethel Margaret Stronge, left the vase to his mother Mrs Rose Ethel Richardson of Tynan Abbey, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, who gave it to her son, Lady Ethel Margaret married Sir James Henry Stronge who joined the diplomatic service in London in 1879 and served in Peking in the same year, He went on to serve in the Supreme Court in Shanghai in 1885 before working in Central America from 1897 to 1907, the vase was brought to Britain by the seller’s family more than a century ago,
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