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Add Or 2317-2332

Record Id:

032-003263790

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003263790

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add Or 2317-2332

Title:

16 drawings illustrating the contents and furnishings of Chinese houses and temples.

Scope & Content:

16 drawings bound into a volume together with Add.Or.2197-2316, illustrating the contents and furnishings of Chinese houses and temples: bamboo and wooden furniture, vases, gongs, scroll paintings, altars, bronzes, embroideries, lacquered goods, musical instruments, lanterns, toys, mobiles, weapons, trophies, sedan chairs and miscellaneous ornaments.

By a Canton artist, c.1800-06.

Water-marks of 1794 and 1805.

Gouache; 14.75 by 18 ins.

Deposited c.1806.

Note: See Mildrd Archer, ‘Chinese lanterns’, ‘Geographical Magazine,’ December 1960, 452-457, reproducing Add.Or.2237 and 2332.

Lo, A., & Wood, Frances. (2011). Da ying tu shu guan te cang zhong guo qing dai wai xiao hua jing hua = Chinese export paintings of the Qing Period in the British Library. Volume IV. Guangzhou: Guangdong People's Publishing House. pp 204-235.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003263790

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Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003263790

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

16 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

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Styles:

China/Canton style
Chinese school

Start Date:

1800

End Date:

1806

Date Range:

1800-1806

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: opaque watercolour

Finding Aids:

Mildred Archer, Company drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1972), 215cxviii

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Interiors