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CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
China – an album
the drawings all titled with Chinese characters and numbered, nos 1 and 3 on fve sheets, the frst four detached, nos 4-271 as
vignettes, four per page
no.1: 5¿ x 126¿in. (13 x 320.5cm.)
no.3: 5Ω x 126¿in. (14 x 320.5cm.)
nos 4-271 on album leaves: 10Ω x 13ºin. (26.6 x 33.5cm.)
the album: 10Ω x 13ºin. (26.6 x 35.3cm.)
blue silk boards (gilt title)
£15,000-20,000 US$19,000-25,000
€17,000-23,000
PROVENANCE:
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 10 April 1986, lot 41.
The album comprises 271 watercolours, nos. 1 and 3 depicting an imperial parade and a funeral procession respectively, no. 2 the
boating party (not numbered), nos. 4-271 Chinese types, trades, costume and scenery.