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TINGQUA (STUDIO OF GUAN
244 (part lot) LIANCHANG), CIRCA 1809-1870
Marriage procession, Guangzhou (Canton)
244 (part lot) c.1854
100 | BONHAMS Watercolours on paper, three paintings from a
set, mounted, framed and glazed.
29cm x 39.5cm (11.1/2in x 15.1/2in). (3).

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,700 - 15,000
HK$12,000 - 18,000

Provenance
Mr. N Beal, acquired directly from the artist’s
studio, 1854.
Frank T. Sabin Ltd, New Bond Street, London,
1975.

Paintings thought to belong to the same
99-leaf album are illustrated by Frank T.
Sabin in his 1975 catalogue ‘A collection of
Watercolours by Tingqua’, New Bond Street,
London.

244
ATTRIBUTED TO PUQUA (ACTIVE LATE
18TH CENTURY)
Street Trades and Costumes of China, c.1798
Watercolour on paper, framed and glazed;
including an interesting ‘crime’ scene
depicting a detained merchant being led away
on a steel chain, beside a European and an
Ottoman merchant; together with: Attributed
to Tingqua (Guan Lianchang), four floral still
lives, gouache on pith paper, c.1850, framed
and glazed.
The Puqua, various sizes, the largest about
22.5cm (8 7/8in) x 33cm (13in) (15).

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY15,000 - 19,000
HK$18,000 - 24,000

Similar paintings by Puqua were used for the
illustrations of George Henry Mason’s book
The Costume of China, illustrated by sixty
engravings: with explanations in English and
French, William Miller, London, 1804.