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A pair och Chinese Export paintings depicting the Hongs of Canton and buildings along the river, late 18th century.

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A pair och Chinese Export paintings depicting the Hongs of Canton and buildings along the river, late 18th century.

Anonymous artist. Measure 70x42 cm. Measure with frame 79x52 cm.

Wear, loss of pigment.

Provenance

From the Collection of Esbjörn Kronberg, thence by descent.

Exhibitions

Compare with Bonhams, Fine Chinese Art
7 November 2024, lot 159. Provenance; Martyn Gregory.

More information

This is an early view of Canton painted in the western manner. Such views were produced by local artists for western m

This particular view of the western businesses or 'hongs' at Canton can be precisely dated by the flags flying, notably the pre-revolution white Bourbon flag marking the French 'factory', the flag replaced by the tricolour in 1791. The Imperial flag of the Austrian empire (flying between the French and Swedish flags) further dates the work to between 1779 and 1787, when British-owned ships under this flag are recorded at Canton. The carefully detailed figures on the waterfront (Europeans, Indians and Chinese, all male, as women were forbidden) are characteristic of these early views. The buildings see the quayside in transition, with western architectural elements being introduced in the second half of the 18th century, the classical façades of the western factories beginning to replace the local vernacular. The quayside here (narrow before the land reclaiming that would extend the frontage out into the river) runs from the creek on the right, which marked the eastern end of the foreigners' precinct, to the wall and Chinese customs house on the left, which marked the western end.

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