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CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1810 CHINESE SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Tea Cultivation Guanyin Hill, Canton, with the fve-storey pagoda and the Old City
wall beyond
bodycolour on card laid down on board
14¬ x 17√in. (37.2 x 45.4cm.) and similar (2) titled in Chinese characters 'Guangdong – Guangzhou – Guanyin hill' in the
lower margin
£3,000-4,000 US$3,800-4,900
bodycolour on paper
€3,400-4,500
15º x 20ºin. (38.8 x 51.4cm.)
PROVENANCE: £4,000-6,000 US$5,000-7,400
Anon. sale, Christie’s, New York, 29 Jan. 1986, lot 3. €4,600-6,800
PROVENANCE:
with Martyn Gregory, London, 2003, cat.79, no.73.

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