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CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1810 CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1815
A view of Macao, looking north-east Whampoa Anchorage with Dutch, British, Austrian, French, Danish
and American Shipping at anchor, the Whampoa docks in the
trade label of C. Lefever, carver and gilder of no. 5 Loll Bazaar [Calcutta], glued
to the relined canvas on the reverse foreground
oil on canvas oil on canvas
8 x 11in. (20.3 x 27.9cm.) 13Ω x 22¬in. (34.2 x 57.4cm.)
£10,000-15,000 US$13,000-19,000 £12,000-16,000 US$15,000-20,000
€12,000-17,000 €14,000-18,000
PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE:
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 22 Oct. 1986, lot 103 (where recorded as being Anon. sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 18 August 2001,
inscribed 'Donné à P. Rald(?) / par M. Braque' on the reverse of the original lot 1040.
frame).
This view shows the shops, customs house and bankshalls on Fiddler's
Reach which serviced the East Indiamen and their crews, anchored here in
English Reach, 12 miles short of Canton, and as far up the river as Western
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shipping was permitted.
CHINESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1816-1820
The waterfront at Canton with the Danish, Spanish, American,
Swedish, British and Dutch factories
oil on canvas
8æ x 11¬in. (22.2 x 29.5cm.)
£7,000-10,000 US$8,700-12,000
€7,900-11,000

The Factories seen shortly before the fre of 1822. The view shows the New
English Factory to the left of Hog Lane, with its new pedimented Palladian
frontage, this façade built after the fre at the factory in February 1815. There
is no bell tower (late 1821) standing in front of the Danish factory to the left of
the American factory. The latter would be rebuilt with a Western style façade
shortly before the fre in 1822.