Auction Background R.F.C. Hedgeland, was born in Exeter, Devon in 1874, an officer with the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. He joined the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in May 1898 after graduating from Oxford. Throughout over thirty years of service across China, the career took him to many ports, Haikou in Hainan island, Nanjing, Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Macao, Nanning, Shantou and Guangzhou. Mr. Hedgeland collected Chinese antiques with great enthusiasm. In the year of 1930, he left China carrying his whole collection back to England. This auction is of the estate of R.F.C Hedgeland himself, which is provided by his descendants. （以下内容为中文翻译，内容一致） R.F.C. Hedgeland （1874—1967），英國籍中國海關，1874年生於德文郡埃克塞特。早年畢業於牛津大學，1898年加入中國海關，擔任要職。 Hedgeland先生在中國工作生活長達三十年之久，輾轉於各個重要港口，如海南海口，南京，北京，天津，香港，澳門，南寧，汕頭以及廣州。Hedgeland先生熱衷於中國古董藝術品收藏，1930年攜其全部收藏離開中國回到英國。 本場拍賣為Hedgeland先生後人所藏其本人的遺產拍賣。