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ANONYMOUS, CANTON SCHOOL
The Bund of Shanghai, circa 1855
Oil on canvas, on a stretcher, framed.
29 x 44in (73.6 x 111.8cm)
US$15,000 - 25,000
佚名 外灘 布面油畫 鏡框 約一八五五年作
Provenance
Christie’s, New York, 15 March 1988
來源
紐約佳士得，1988年3月15日
The port of Shanghai was opened to Western trade under the terms of
the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ending the first ‘Opium War’. Soon after,
wharves and trading houses were built along banks of the Huangpu
river. This early view of the European and American trading houses and
consulates along the west bank of the Huangpu river illustrates the
Bund in its formative stage.
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