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China Trade School, 19th Century The Waterfront Hongs at Canton, China, 1847-1856. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 33 1/2 in., in original Chinese carved and lacquered wood frame. Condition: Relined, scattered retouch, craquelure. Provenance: Probably descended through one of the shipbuilding or seafaring Briggs families of Massachusetts, to Dr. Lloyd Vernon Briggs (1863-1941), psychiatrist, historian, and author, who penned numerous papers and volumes in the field of psychiatry, and also historical books including a genealogy of the Briggs families; then by family descent to the consignor. The back of the frame and stretcher retains three paper labels: two inscribed "L.V. Briggs 64 Beacon St., City" [Boston], and one indicating the painting was on loan to the Fogg Museum at Harvard.


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