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10 in. (25.3 cm.) wide, hongmu stand
Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, GBE (1881-1961) Collection, by repute. The Gump Family Collection, San Francisco.
Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon was a wealthy businessman and hotelier from the Sassoon banking family. Sassoon traveled frequently in India and the Far East, where he nurtured extensive business interests, including founding the Cathay Hotel (now the?Peace Hotel) on The Bund, Shanghai, in 1929. Sir Victor was an avid collector of Asian art, and his collection of Chinese ivories was particularly impressive.?The Gump Family?opened an emporium in San Francisco in 1861, initially supplying furnishings to residences during the Gilded Age, and later expanding into gift wares, silver, stationery and Asian art. The store attracted wealthy clientele of customers from around the world, who relished visits to the famed Gump Jade Room. Gump's is credited with popularizing the collecting of high quality jade in America. Richard Gump published Jade, Stone of Heaven in 1962, which became a popular reference volume for jade collectors.