Paintings

Available Pieces
  • R1405and6

    £9,850

    Pair of large Chinese watercolours in gouache heightened in gum arabic, painted with lakeside gardens in Canton, one with rock work and trees in the water with two extra levels to the villa, the other showing the fishpond at the back of the villa with a figure standing on the balcony.

  • R10017/8

    £10,000

    A pair of Chinese mirror paintings of seated ladies, each resting her arm on rockwork beside an overhanging tree, wearing a long pink robe and blue skirt and holds in her lap a white feathered fan, all in a garden scene on a mirror ground.

  • R9924/R9925

    £22,000

    A large pair of Chinese watercolours on paper, finely painted with figures approaching a temple and a man carrying two large baskets in a landscape scene with large trees, the other with a river scene, with a vessel with two figures pointing at a gentleman and child crossing a bridge, with a fisherman's' boat in mid stream, the river bordered by trees with houses and a figure at a window, framed and glazed.

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  • M1872-7

    £POA

    A set of six China Trade gouache and watercolour paintings on paper heightened in gum Arabic, three painted with palace garden scenes with figures amongst  exotic overhanging trees, one with pagoda island, one with view along the Pearl river and one with a lake side scene.

  • M1872-5

    £POA

    Whampoa the deep water anchorage on the Pearl River about eight miles downstream from Canton where the East Indiamen lay at anchor during the four month trading season, the view is taken from Dane’s Island looking towards Wampoa Island with its two pagodas.

  • M1872-4

    £POA

    Macau depicting the Praya Grande looking North East from the rocky shore across the bay are the Monte and Guia Hills each with a fort at its summit.

  • M1872-2

    £POA

    Shanghai with American and British vessels.

  • M1872-6

    £POA

    Mouth to the Boca Tigris with a Folly Fort.

  • M1872-3

    £POA

    Canton depicting the foreign factories of America, France, Britain, Denmark who’s flag signified the headquarters of Jardine Matheson one of who’s directors acted as the Danish Consul, the flag of Hamburg and the flag of Prussia and dated to December 6th 1856.

  • M1872-1

    £POA

    Hong Kong with a British steam ship.

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