formed as a globe engraved with lines of latitude and longitude, one side with circular reserve engraved THE ASTRA BILLIARDS CHALLENGE TROPHY, surmounted by a fully modeled eagle with wings spread, all raised on a detachable carved wood base, marked on underside of globe
9.7/8 in. (25.1 cm) high, overall

10 oz. 12 dwt. (330 gr.) weighable silver

With Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 1999, lot 158 (sold as one of two).

Kernan, John Devereux, The Chait Collection of Chinese Export Silver, New York, 1985, p. 240.

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