Bocca Tigris

Details

Chinese School, circa 1810
Bocca Tigris
oil on canvas
23 x 32¼in. (58.4 x 81.9cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Denmark.

Exhibited

London, Martyn Gregory, The China Trade, 1996, cat. no. 69, no.100.

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Lot Essay

Bocca Tigris ('the Tiger's Mouth' and also known as 'the Bogue'), a narrows on the Pearl River 30 miles south of Whampoa, was a fortified Customs point through which all Western shipping had to pass. Here a Danish East Indiaman is shown passing between Wantong and Anunghoi Forts, with two Customs vessels in the foreground.

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