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Lot 185
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Chinese School, 19th century

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Description

  • Chinese School, 19th Century
  • A Rare and Miniature Early China Trade View of the Port of Canton
  • oil on panel
  • 3 3/4 by 5 in. (9.5 by 12.7cm)

Catalogue Note

The flags of Denmark, United States, Sweden, Great Britain and France are visible.  This painting appears to be dated to 1800-1803.  It can be ascribed to this date because there is the Union Jack flag of 1800 and the French flag, which was removed in 1803 and not hoisted again until 1832. Cf. a painting in the Peabody Essex Museum, illustrated in Carl Crossman, The China Trade, Suffolk, England, 1991, p. 425, fig. 6.