CHINESE SCHOOL, late 18th century

A Pair of Paintings: The Hongs at Canton and Whampoa Anchorage

Details

CHINESE SCHOOL, late 18th century
A Pair of Paintings: The Hongs at Canton and Whampoa Anchorage
oil on glass
13 x 19in., each (2)

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 27-30 January 1982, lot 1030

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Lot Essay

For a similar view of Canton attributed to Spoilum and in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, see Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade (Woodbridge, England, 1991), p. 107, pl. 34.