VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MILTON MILLER, EMIL RUSFELDT, and possibly AFONG LAI

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including MILTON MILLER, EMIL RUSFELDT, and possibly AFONG LAI

Chinese portrait studies, 1870s-1904

Twelve albumen prints and two gelatin silver prints, sizes approx. 4 x 6¼ in. to 8½ x 10¾ in. or the reverse, one 2 x 1½ in., two with corners trimmed, one trimmed to oval, one titled, dated and two numbered in the negatives, one mounted on paper and three mounted on card including two back-to-back, one titled on paper label, three titled in ink on mounts, matted. (14)

Literature

The image by Miller of a Chinese official being carried in a sedan chair is illustrated in Worswick, Photographs Imperial China 1850-1912, pp. 78-79, an anonymous image of Manchu women travelling in a wheelbarrow is illustrated in Carrington Goodrich, The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912, p. 109

Lot Essay

Including two images of Chinese people being transported in Sedan chairs, an unusual full-length profile of a Chinese mandarin seated outside in front of a hexagonal chimney for an underground heating system, a reproduction of Kuang Hsu, Emperor of China, a group of blind musicians, a Chinese barber, Imperial officer Tong Yik Ku.

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