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Bocca Tigris, Chinese Export Trade, circa 1850 Qing Dynasty

Children In A Garden Landscape, 19th Century Qing Dynasty Chinese School Large 19th Century Chinese School garden landscape with children, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and cond...

Trade Ships Off Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, 1860 Chinese School Large 19th Century Chinese School view of trade ships off Victoria, Hong Kong, oil on board. Excellent quality and ...

Seascape, 19th Century attributed to William Page Atkinson WELLS (1872-1923) 19th century English Seascape, oil on canvas attributed to W...

Mazeppa, 19th Century From The Poem By Lord Byron English School Large 19th Century English scene from Lord Byrons narrative poem "Mazeppa", oil on canvas. Excellent quality circa...

The oldest European buildings in China are along the once curved crescent shore of the Praya Grande, where the Portuguese explorers established and fortified their trading foothold with an entire continent. When they arrived in 1553, this small fishing village overlooked by a temple to an ocean goddess immediately became an important cultural center of the world and the stage for initial interactions between the East and West. Ever since, this port has played a role in the cosmopolitan course of world trade. (The harbor is extensively filled in and built upon today.) In this view, more than 300 years after the Dutch established contact in the early 17th Century and western ships first sailed in the harbor, a British Sidewheel Steamer is in the port of Macao, surrounded by more than 20 Chinese vessels. The artist's perspective, looking northwest towards the Praya Grande's center, brings Praha Hill and its stone stairway in view, with the church on top. The inlaid stone walkway of the port city is full of human figures, one wearing a special red jacket while the rest wear blue or white. One westerner in a top hat at the stern post of the closest Chinese ship directs its crew outward bound...

This 19th-century Chinese Export gouache painting depicts a sailing vessel navigating turbulent seas, executed in the refined style characteristic of Cantonese (Guangzhou) workshops ...

Sought by collectors worldwide, art and artifacts showing an early western presence in the Orient boomed with the opening of the China Trade by way of the sailing ship. The surviving paintings which capture the important Chinese harbors...

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Chinese Craft on the Pearl River. Canton, circa 1810. A pencil, water colour and body colour drawing of craft, heightened with white on paper watermarked ‘J Whatm...