Lot 57
  • 57

Henry Scott R.S.A.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Scott R.S.A.
  • Silver Morning, Foo Chow, with the Clippers Windhover and Thermopylae
  • signed Henry Scott (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 42 in.
  • 71.1 by 106.7 cm

Catalogue Note

When the tea trade began, the ports of Canton, Whampoa and Macao were the first opened for Western ships.  The prominence of these ports were soon eclipsed by the activity at Shanghai, and then by the most popular of all, Foo Chow.