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ATTRIBUTED TO SHANG TAI, 19TH CENTURY
Praya Grande, Macau from Offshore, circa 1855
Oil on canvas, on a stretcher, framed and glazed, titled in Chinese
and Roman characters lower center, signed in stencil on the reverse
‘Shang Tai Portrait Painter Macao’.
16 1/2 x 28 1/2in (42 x 72.4cm)

US$20,000 - 30,000

（傳）Shang Tai 澳門南灣 布面油畫 鏡框 約一八五五年作

Provenance
Christie’s, New York, 15 October 1986, lot 62
Vose Galleries (acquired from the above sale)

來源
紐約佳士得，1986年10月15日，拍品編號62
麻省波士頓Vose畫廊

The Praya Grande was the chief waterfront promenade in Macau when
the Portuguese held the peninsula. It was the site of storehouses,
consulates, and government offices. The present view shows the small
San Pedro Fort with a flagpole in the center of the beach. To the left is
Penha Hill and its church, to the right is the Palacio and the East India
Company House. This is the only known port view we have by Shang
Tai, an otherwise unrecorded artist.

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