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                 CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1810
                 The Death of a Mandarin
                 bodycolour on paper
                 14¬ x 18æin. (37.1 x 47.6cm.) and similar
                 six framed, seven unframed                                                           (13)
                 £8,000-12,000                                                              US$9,900-15,000
                                                                                              €9,100-14,000
                 PROVENANCE:
                 James Urmston (1750-1815).
                 Sir James Brabazon Urmston (1785-1850), President of the East India Company's Factory at China and author of Observations on the China
                 Trade, and on the Importance and Advantages of removing it from Canton to some other Part of the Coast of that Empire (London, 1832).
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