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Property from the Kelton Collection
Anonymous, Canton School
Fukien Junks on Pearl River with Fort, circa 1820Gouache on paper, framed and glazed. 13 x 17 1/2in (33 x 44.5cm)
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佚名 砲台與泊在珠江上的福建商船 水粉紙本 鏡框 約一八二〇年作ProvenanceChristie's, South Kensington, 19 June 1998, Lot 643 來源倫敦南肯辛頓佳士得,1998年6月19日,拍品編號643Along with larger trans-oceanic merchant vessels and clipper ships that populated the Pearl River Delta at the height of the China trade, Chinese junks also played a crucial role in the international trade. These smaller vessels, here depicted at their moorings near the Dutch Folly Fort, would have been the type that carried Chinese goods to the closer markets in South Asia and the Philippines.