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Property from the Kelton Collection
Anonymous, Canton School
Pagoda Anchorage, Fuzhou, circa 1845Oil on canvas, on stretcher, framed and glazed, with an inscription reading 'Tou-Chow' on the lower edge of the composition. 17 x 29in (43.2 x 73.7cm)
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佚名 福州羅星塔泊船口 布面油畫 鏡框 約一八四五年作ProvenanceRobert Sawyers, London, by repute 來源據藏家,購自倫敦Robert SawyersThis view is from the Southern bank of the River Min looking northeast toward Pagoda Island with the anchorage in the foreground. The seven-tiered pagoda after which the island is named is seen on the hill to the right. The limited development suggests a pre-1855 date for this scene. Foochow (Fuzhou) was one of five 'treaty ports' of China opened under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. A similar oil painting dated possibly to the same period is documented in D.E.R. Brewington, Marine Paintings and Drawings in Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut, 1982, p.201. A similar but slightly earlier view is in the Mystic Seaport Museum (acc. no. 1963.523), without the building below the pagoda, and with a Chinese junk in the foreground instead of a Western ship. See also Picturing Cathay Maritime and cultural images of the China trade, cat. 60, p. 119.