Mar 24, 2011 - Sale 2240

Sale 2240 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,500 - $ 5,500
(CHINA)
Group of 15 photographs, comprising 4 attributed to w. m. saunders, including a scene of rickshaw drivers, an interior view depicting 2 men and a scribe (?), street barbers, and a bustling market scene, plus miscellaneous views including the Yellow Tomb in Peking, 2 interior scenes of what may be a floating brothel, a well-dressed diminutive female figure, 2 views of Hong Kong's harbor (one with the war vessel "Anchorage"), men pulling two rickshaws, and more. Albumen prints, 8x10 3/4 inches (20.3x27.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse; 2 with numeric notations in the negative. 1880s-1890s