Chinese School, 19th Century View of the Praya Grande from the North, Macao.

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Chinese School, 19th Century

View of the Praya Grande from the North, Macao. c.1850. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, showing a row of western style buildings with an American flag flying above one, the sweeping curve of the Praya Grande to the right, the hill Penha to the left with a church, several Chinese junks and a sidewheeler flying an American flag in the foreground, 17 1/2 x 30 in., in a molded giltwood frame. Condition: Relined, craquelure, minor pitting.

Literature: The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, by Carl Crossman, Antique Collectors' Club, 1991, p. 411, for a similar view of this painting.
Estimate $10,000-15,000

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