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Collection Area Visual Arts

2071. Add Or 1978

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1978
Title:
Chinese vessel, musicians boat
Scope & Content:
‘Hee-Sheun. Boat for Chinese musicians and comedians etc., otherwise a sing-song boat’. Inscribed: ‘Theatre boat.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2072. Add Or 1979

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1979
Title:
Chinese vessel, customs house guard boat
Scope & Content:
‘Tie-cheuung Sheun. A kind of Custom house Guard boat, employed to look out, for prevention of smuggling’. Inscribed: ‘Police boat.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2073. Add Or 1980

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1980
Title:
Chinese vessel, Dragon-boat
Scope & Content:
‘Lung Sheun. Literally Dragon or Snake boat. On a particular festival of the Chinese which falls on their fifth month, boats of this construction are used as Race boats’. Inscribed: ‘Dragon boat of the festival on the 5th of the 5th month.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2074. Add Or 1981

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1981
Title:
Chinese vessel, prostitutes boat
Scope & Content:
‘Wang-low. Large kind of Boat for the accommodation of Prostitutes’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2075. Add Or 1982

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1982
Title:
Chinese vessel, flat-bottomed river boat
Scope & Content:
‘Mooc-ma-Sheun. Flat bottomed boat for shallow rivers or canals’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2076. Add Or 1983

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1983
Title:
Chinese vessel, rive-boat
Scope & Content:
‘Kouc-Sheun. Rice Boat’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2077. Add Or 1984

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1984
Title:
Chinese vessel, patrol boat to stop smuggling
Scope & Content:
‘Tsap-shee-Sheun. A Custom house boat employed to prevent smuggling. Inscribed: ‘Patrol boat against smuggling.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2078. Add Or 1985

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1985
Title:
Chinese vessel, stone carrying boat
Scope & Content:
‘Tic-Sheac-Sheun. Large and strong built boat used for carrying stones for building. Literally a large stone boat’. Inscribed: ‘Boat for transporting worked blocks of stone.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2079. Add Or 1986

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1986
Title:
Chinese vessel, grocer's shop-boat
Scope & Content:
‘Tie-Shui-lew. Literally a water Shop. A boat in which a kind of Grocer’s Shop is kept on the water’. Inscribed: ‘Shop on water.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

2080. Add Or 1987

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 1987
Title:
Chinese vessel, passage boat for mandarins
Scope & Content:
‘Hoon-Sheun. Large kind of Passage Boat used to carry the Mandarins from one part of the Empire to another’. Inscribed: ‘Official boat of the customs.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1805
Extent:
1 Item

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