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Martyn Gregory Gallery
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A riverside estate near Canton
( China
c. 1800
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Description / Expertise
Circa 1800(Guangzhou)Oil on canvas77.5 x 123 cm (301/2 x 481/2 in) The spacious walled estate depicted here was perhaps the country residence of the senior merchant Howqua; visitors from the West would pass the plant nurseries of Fa-ti before proceeding up the narrow river to Howqua's demesne. The New York merchant William Hunter, who arrived in China in 1825, described these country residences as being ‘on a vast scale, comprising curiously laid-out gardens, with grottoes and lakes, crossed by carved stone bridges, pathways neatly paved ...' (W. Hunter, The ‘Fan Kwae' at Canton, 1882, p.24).
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