Lots 33 to 37 From the Collection of the Late Thomas Torrance (1871-1959) A Chinese Guan-type double vase, 18th century, of two adjoining square vases on a short spreading foot, covered overall with a soft bluish-grey glaze suffused with a network of dark grey and golden crackles, simulating the 'iron wire' and 'gold thread' of Song dynasty Guan ware, the foot rim dressed in brown, 22cm high, wood stand (2) Provenance: Thomas Torrance (1871-1959), and thence by descent. Thomas Torrance was born in Shotts, Scotland. After becoming a Protestant missionary, he was posted by the China Inland Mission to Chengdu, China in 1895, residing in Western Sichuan from 1896 to 1910. After a brief period back in Scotland in 1910, Torrance re-established himself in Western Sichuan with the American Bible Society. He married Annie Elizabeth Sharp in 1911 and finally returned to Scotland in 1934. On his journeys throughout Sichuan and the Himalayan foothills, Torrance happened upon the Qiang people, who he considered descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Torrance was also influential in the founding of the West China Union University Archaeological Museum. See: ‘The Selected Works of Thomas Torrance', Chengdu, 2016, p.234.
Lots 33 to 37 From the Collection of the Late Thomas Torrance (1871-1959) A Chinese Guan-type double vase, 18th century, of two adjoining square vases on a short spreading foot, covered overall with a soft bluish-grey glaze suffused with a network of dark grey and golden crackles, simulating the 'iron wire' and 'gold thread' of Song dynasty Guan ware, the foot rim dressed in brown, 22cm high, wood stand (2) Provenance: Thomas Torrance (1871-1959), and thence by descent. Thomas Torrance was born in Shotts, Scotland. After becoming a Protestant missionary, he was posted by the China Inland Mission to Chengdu, China in 1895, residing in Western Sichuan from 1896 to 1910. After a brief period back in Scotland in 1910, Torrance re-established himself in Western Sichuan with the American Bible Society. He married Annie Elizabeth Sharp in 1911 and finally returned to Scotland in 1934. On his journeys throughout Sichuan and the Himalayan foothills, Torrance happened upon the Qiang people, who he considered descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Torrance was also influential in the founding of the West China Union University Archaeological Museum. See: ‘The Selected Works of Thomas Torrance', Chengdu, 2016, p.234.
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