Chinese Ceramics Buy Now Private Sale - From the Collection of Robert Edwards
Posted on September 17 2025
Rivertown Antiques and Estate Services is pleased to have been granted the opportunity to disperse part of this important collection. Robert Edwards (1883-1979) and his wife Gloria (1886-1960). Thence by descent. Robert arrived in Shanghai in 1910, to work for Jardine, Matheson & Co. He married Gloria Byrne in 1917 and it was Gloria who took a special interest in acquiring Chinese antiques. The couple stayed in China until 1938/39. Several pieces in the collection have been exhibited at The Art Gallery Exhibition, Asian Art from the collection of Robert Edwards, in 1965.
