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15 Chinese Export School. Album of pith paintings, Yut Shing, Canton, 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper (33.5 x 21.5cm), some heightened with metallic pigments, each mounted to a separate sheet of laid paper and with mounted border of blue silk ribbon, offsetting, a few marks in plain backgrounds, ribbon lifting or creased in places (absent along bottom edge of second miniature), face of the third miniature slightly smudged, chip to background of ninth miniature not touching image, possible customs stamp ‘150 Yutshing’ in red ink to front pastedown, contemporary Chinese binding of patterned red silk over limp paper boards, green silk ties, wear to bottom edges of covers, delamination at lower outer corner of rear cover, folio (36.5 x 24.5cm) Most of the miniatures depict swordsmen (and one swordswoman) in various poses; there is also a dual-axe wielder, a juggler, an archer, and two unarmed figures. All are pictured in elaborate costume rendered in fine detail, and four of the figures are in dragon robes. (1) £1,000 - £1,500
16* Company School. Set of Indian mica paintings, possibly Madras or environs, c.1850-80, 16 gouaches on mica (22 x 14.5cm), laid into a contemporary stitched booklet of plain tissue-paper with pencilled captions (one caption reading ‘Madras Water Beast’), and depicting trades and professions, village scenes, local costume, a nautch (captioned ‘dancing girl’), snake charmers, catamarans on a rough sea, and a beach scene with a horse jumping from a rowing boat and a British gentlemen standing in the surf in yellow riding-jacket and top hat, a few chips and small areas of paint loss as usual (16)
17 Cook (James). The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, 7 volumes, London: Richard Phillips, 1809, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 28 folding plates & 2 folding maps (one with closed tear), ink stamped signature to titles and front pastedowns of each, some browning and spotting, contemporary red half morocco, gilt decorated spines, 12mo in 6s (7)
£150 - £200
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£200 - £300