The Anchorage at Whampoa Island

Title: 
The Anchorage at Whampoa Island

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Object Name: 
Reverse Painting
Title: 
The Anchorage at Whampoa Island
Place Made: 
China, Canton
Accession Number: 
2002.6.5
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 38.2 cm, W: 53.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1784-1785
Web Description: 
外销玻璃画 Whampoa Island in the Pearl River was the remotest trading post accessible to the ocean-going ships of Europe’s East India Companies. It is situated about a dozen miles downriver from Canton.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Choi, Kee Il, Jr., Source
2002-05-21
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
multicolored
Technique: 
painting
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
paint
wood

Description

Primary Description: 
Reverse Painting, “The Anchorage at Whampoa Island”. Colorless glass, paint, wood; blown, painted, gilded, carved. Whampoa Island in the Pearl River, showing Dane's Island in the foreground and foreign trade ships from five European countries. On the shore are temporary storage depots. The Cantonese frame, original to the painting, is in Neo-classical style.

Publications (1)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, p. 209, fig. 12; BIB# AI59133