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ANONYMOUS, CANTON SCHOOL This view is from the Southern bank of the River Min looking northeast
Pagoda Anchorage, Fuzhou, circa 1845 toward Pagoda Island with the anchorage in the foreground. The
Oil on canvas, on stretcher, framed and glazed, with an inscription seven-tiered pagoda after which the island is named is seen on the
reading ‘Tou-Chow’ on the lower edge of the composition. hill to the right. The limited development suggests a pre-1855 date
17 x 29in (43.2 x 73.7cm) for this scene. Foochow (Fuzhou) was one of five ‘treaty ports’ of
China opened under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. A
US$8,000 - 12,000 similar oil painting dated possibly to the same period is documented in
D.E.R. Brewington, Marine Paintings and Drawings in Mystic Seaport
Museum, Connecticut, 1982, p.201. A similar but slightly earlier view
佚名 福州羅星塔泊船口 布面油畫 鏡框 約一八四五年作 is in the Mystic Seaport Museum (acc. no. 1963.523), without the
building below the pagoda, and with a Chinese junk in the foreground
Provenance instead of a Western ship. See also Picturing Cathay Maritime and
Robert Sawyers, London, by repute cultural images of the China trade, cat. 60, p. 119.

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據藏家，購自倫敦Robert Sawyers

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