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AN ALBUM OF SEVENTY WATERCOLOURS
CIRCA 1793
約1793年 外銷水彩花果草魚冊頁 設色紙本 七十開
The album contains seventy watercolours on paper depicting Chinese fowers,
fruits, insects and fsh with English captions.
According to the album notes, thirty drawings signed with ‘D’ are painted by
a Western painter named Dellow in Macau between 1793-1794, the rest by
anonymous Cantonese painters at the same period.
The album measures: 14æ x 9¬ in. (37.4 x 24.4 cm)
£2,000-3,000 $3,100-4,500
€2,800-4,100
PROVENANCE: (East India Company watermark detail)
Private English collection, acquired in the 1960s by the vendor’s mother, and
then by descent.
來源:英國私人珍藏,由現藏家母親於1960年代購入,
由家族藏至今