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A HARDWOOD GAMING TABLE George Chinnery (1774-1852) studied at the Royal Academy in
18th/19th century London. After a short stay in Ireland, he left for India and settled in
The shaped square table top with four swivel drawers and inset with Madras and Calcutta. There, he won a reputation as a portrait painter.
circular stone panels along the sides, supported on four cabriole legs However, he spent the last 27 years of his life in Macau. During this
supporting four curvilinear supports suspending a tray beneath, the period he painted and drew the city and its people. He visited Hong
wood of dark-honey tone. Kong in 1846 but returned to Macau after only six months.
79cm (31 1/8in) wide x 78cm (30 3/4in) deep x 78cm (30 3/4in) high.
A very similar pencil drawing by Chinnery described as ‘Sampans by
£8,000 - 12,000 the port entry into the A-Ma Temple’, Macau 1839, is in the Museu do
CNY71,000 - 110,000 Oriente, Lisbon, (acc.no.F0/0732).

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十八/十九世紀 外銷硬木棋桌
ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL
19th century
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE Oil on board depicting a portrait of the Governor of Canton,
女爵藏品 Ye Mingchen, framed and glazed.
Lots 102 - 103 22.5cm (8 7/8in) wide x 28cm (11in) long. (2).
102 £2,000 - 3,000
GEORGE CHINNERY (1774-1852) CNY18,000 - 27,000
Riverscapes
Oil on canvas depicting figures on a riverbank, framed, 20.5cm (8in) 十九世紀 外銷兩廣總督葉名琛像油彩畫
high x 26.3cm (10 1/2in) wide; together with a pencil on paper drawing
of sampans beside a rocky shore, framed and glazed, 18.5cm (7.5in) Provenance: an English private collection
wide x 30cm (11 3/4in) high. (2).
來源： 英國私人收藏
£5,000 - 8,000
CNY45,000 - 71,000 Ye Mingchen 葉名琛 (1807-1859) was a high ranking Qing dynasty
official, known for his resistance to British influence in Canton after the
喬治·錢納利（1774-1852） 外銷媽祖閣景觀油彩畫 First Opium War and his role in the beginning of the Second Opium War.

Provenance: an English private collection

來源： 英國私人收藏

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