The Guia Lighthouse on the Canton River, a fan, the leaf painted with the pagoda on the Canton river and two oval vignettes of ducks and ornamental pheasant, the reserves pink and painted with a toad, vases and other Taoist symbols, the recto painted with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the gilt filigree sticks enamelled in blue and green with flowers, the guardsticks with filigree dragons applied with blue enamel - 12in. (29cm. ), Canton, circa 1850

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The Guia Lighthouse on the Canton River, a fan, the leaf painted with the pagoda on the Canton river and two oval vignettes of ducks and ornamental pheasant, the reserves pink and painted with a toad, vases and other Taoist symbols, the recto painted with figures on terraces, their faces of ivory, their clothes of silk, the gilt filigree sticks enamelled in blue and green with flowers, the guardsticks with filigree dragons applied with blue enamel - 12in. (29cm. ), Canton, circa 1850

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