Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHINA)
Box containing 45 small-format photographic portraits and scenes, comprising 2 cabinet card portraits of Chinese-Americans, 11 cartes-de-visite portraits, including 7 from France (the Exposition Universelle of 1867), 3 of Chinese-Americans, including Che-Mah (by Eisenmann), and one from Shanghai; as well as 32 cdv's depicting tombs, street scenes, landscapes and pagodas (22 of which are "from life"). Mounted albumen prints, many with the photographer's calligraphic imprint, in Chinese, on mounts recto and/or verso; two with period handwritten captions, in English. 1867-1870s

Additional Details

From the Estate of Fong Chow.