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          STUDIO OF SUNQUA (FL.1830-1870)                     STUDIO OF SUNQUA (FL.1830-1870)
          The Manufacture of Silk                             The Manufacture of Tea
          twelve bodycolours on pith paper                    inscribed '24 Manufacture of Tea / Mr Brain' (on the front free endpaper)
          each 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20.4cm.)                     twenty-four bodycolours on pith paper
          in a Cantonese silk-bound album                     each 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20.4cm.)
                                                              in a Cantonese silk-bound album
          £3,000-5,000                          US$3,700-6,200
                                                  €3,400-5,600  £4,000-6,000                        US$5,000-7,400
                                                                                                      €4,600-6,800
          PROVENANCE:
          Revd William Gott (bookplate on the front pastedown).  PROVENANCE:
          Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 9 May 1986, lot 444 (part).  Revd William Gott (bookplate on the front pastedown).
                                                              Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 9 May 1986, lot 444 (part).












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