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ANONYMOUS, CANTON SCHOOL
Fukien Junks on Pearl River with Fort, circa 1820
Gouache on paper, framed and glazed.
13 x 17 1/2in (33 x 44.5cm)
US$6,000 - 8,000
佚名 砲台與泊在珠江上的福建商船 水粉紙本 鏡框 約一八二〇
年作
Provenance
Christie’s, South Kensington, 19 June 1998, Lot 643
來源
倫敦南肯辛頓佳士得，1998年6月19日，拍品編號643
Along with larger trans-oceanic merchant vessels and clipper ships
that populated the Pearl River Delta at the height of the China trade,
Chinese junks also played a crucial role in the international trade.
These smaller vessels, here depicted at their moorings near the Dutch
Folly Fort, would have been the type that carried Chinese goods to the
closer markets in South Asia and the Philippines.
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