CHINESE SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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CHINESE SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Album of Views of a Buddhist Temple Complex within a walled Garden

inscribed in pencil inside the binding "Taken at the capture of Pekin" 15 x 15in. (38 x 38cm.) (8)

Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillips (Phillips MS. 18053), purchased at Puttick & Simpson's sale 4 February, 1863 (lot 174)

Lot Essay

According to the pencil note in the binding, the album originated from the Imperial collection which was destroyed when Lord Elgin ordered the burning of the Summer Palace in 1860.
Sir Thomas Phillips was a renowned collector of books and manuscripts
one illustrated

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