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CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1860
The Bund at Shanghai
titled lower left and lower right
oil on canvas
18 x 30æin. (45.7 x 78.2cm.)
£30,000-40,000 US$37,000-49,000
€34,000-45,000
PROVENANCE:
with Martyn Gregory, London, 1984, cat.38, no.6.
Shanghai was formally opened to British trade with the ratifcation of the Treaty of Nanking which ended the frst Opium War in
1843, and development of the Bund began quickly. The pace of development can be tracked in Chinese export paintings by Chow
Kwa and his contemporaries active in the 1850s and 1860s, before the frst photographers begin to record the site in long folding
panoramas in the 1880s. This colourful panorama of the Bund is taken from Pudong across the Huangpu river, and portrays the
mile of buildings on the opposite embanked quayside. The view ranges from the French concession and Bund on the extreme left
(marked by the fying tricolour) to the British Consulate on the extreme right (marked by the fying Union Jack). The Portuguese
fag fies above the Dent, Beale & Co premises to the right of the newly renovated red Customs House (Thomas Chay Beale, Dent's
partner, was appointed Consul for Portugal at Shanghai in 1851). The crowded shipping on the river includes French, Austrian,
Dutch, American, Portuguese and British craft, Chinese junks, tanka boats, sampans and barges.

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