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The Property of a Gentleman
紳士藏品

266 Silver plaque on frame
A Chinese reverse painting on glass Fine Chinese Art | 293
Mid 19th century
Painted with great finesse with two delicate ladies
in traditional robes, one wearing a pink jacket over
a blue skirt and carrying a fan and scarf, the other
with a blue jacked over a gold skirt, conversing
with her friend while gesturing with one long-
nailed finger, the ladies looking over a lotus pond
surrounded by walls topped with jardinières
planted with peony and other flowers tended by
one male and one female attendant, all beside a
pavilion and an octagonal gateway leading onto a
distant garden in the background, framed.
The frame 72.1cm x 59.9cm (28 3/8in x 22in)
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000

十九世紀中期 庭院人物圖鏡子畫

Provenance: a European private collection

來源：歐洲私人收藏

A silver plaque mounted at the bottom of the
frame reads: Jaathee Gardens opposite Canton,
1852

The Property of a Nobleman
貴族藏品

267 266
A large Chinese reverse painting on glass
Late 18th century
Depicting a dignitary holding a blue-ground
floral scroll bowl and wearing a black robe with
gilt flowers under a bright red robe surrounded
by four attendants variously holding a parasol,
a sword, a hanging dish and a staff of office, a
musician with a lute and a dark-skinned soldier
bearing a sword descending steps from a terrace
into a garden where two ladies dance, framed.
76cm x 58.5cm (30in x23in)
£6,000 - 10,000
HK$71,000 - 120,000 CNY56,000 - 94,000

十八世紀晚期 人物故事圖鏡子畫

Provenance: James Drummond, 8th Viscount
Strathallan, 1767-1851, present in Canton before
1810

來源：James Drummond，第八代子爵斯特拉
撒倫，1810年前出現在廣東

The Drummond family was attainted after
James’s grandfather, William Drummond the 4th
Viscount, fought for the Jacobite cause and died
at Culloden. Both James and his father, General
Andrew John Drummond, served with The East
India Company. The General was Chief of the
British settlement in Canton during the 1790s
before returning to Scotland.

James began his career as assistant to the Head 267
of the Committee at Canton in 1792. By 1800
he was a member of the Select Committee there
and the following year became President - a post
he held until 1807 when he returned to Scotland,
where two years later he married the daughter of
the Duke of Atholl and in 1824 was restored to
the titles forfeited by his grandfather.