Property from the Dilts Family Collection
An Extremely Rare View of the American Settlement in Shanghai, Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi Period, Circa 1863 | 清同治 約1863年 上海虹口美租界遠眺
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January 24, 03:52 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Property from the Dilts Family Collection
An Extremely Rare View of the American Settlement in Shanghai
Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi Period, Circa 1863
清同治 約1863年 上海虹口美租界遠眺
gouache and watercolor on paper, finely painted with a panoramic view of the American Settlement in Shanghai between the Suzhou and Hongkou (Hongkew) creeks across the Huangpu river, with the First Protestant Episcopal Church in the center and other American houses behind the waterfront promenade bustling with figures, the Huangpu river with a variety of vessels including three paddle steamers, each inscribed with the respective names of the vessels FIRE.CRACKER, FIRE DART, and FUSI-YAMA, and an American sailing ship flying the American flag at the rear and a flag inscribed with E on the center mast, framed and glazed
20 in. by 45 1/2 in.; 50.4 cm by 116.1 cm
Acquired by the King family in the second half of the 19th century
George Gordon King (1859-1922) and Annie Mackenzie Coats King (1860-1939), New York
Their son, Edward King (1901-1975), Pinehurst, North Carolina
His business partner, Sydney Donald ‘Don’ Sherrerd (1896-1994) and Virginia ‘Jenna’ Burrage Sherrerd (1904 -1985), Pinehurst, North Carolina
Their daughter, Lynne Sherrerd Dilts (1935-2020), Durham, North Carolina, and thence by descent to the current owners