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TINGQUA (1809-1870)
Portraits of Commissioners Qiying and Lin Zexu
bodycolour and gold paint on paper
each 11¿ x 9¿in. (28.3 x 23.2cm.) (2)
£10,000-15,000 US$13,000-18,000
€12,000-17,000

PROVENANCE:
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 29 Jan. 1986, lot 24.
EXHIBITED:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, The Dragon and the Eagle: American Traders in China, A Century of Trade from 1784 to
1900, Dec. 2019-April 2019, 2.78.
Two fne portraits from Tingqua's studio of the Imperial Commissioners at Canton, both sitters frequently portrayed in the years
of crisis ahead of the First Opium War. They are portrayed here in their oficial dress, wearing their rich blue silk fur-lined winter
outer coats with badges of rank, over their dragon robes, and both fngering their apple-green jade and amber necklaces. Their hats
denote third rank. Both watercolours are taken from a Tingqua album from which other leaves (in the same Christie's New York sale
in 1986) date the production to c.1847.

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