Circa 1780, probably Canton Delicately and attractively painted on the front with 14 Dutch, British and Swedish fully-rigged East India merchant ships lying at anchor in the famous curve of the Pearl River, no ship flying a sail but the rigging elaborately drawn, smaller sampans moored around them and three multi-tiered pagodas visible in the distance, the ivory sticks with three shaped oval landscape cartouches. The guardsticks 28cm (11in) long
Circa 1780, probably Canton Delicately and attractively painted on the front with 14 Dutch, British and Swedish fully-rigged East India merchant ships lying at anchor in the famous curve of the Pearl River, no ship flying a sail but the rigging elaborately drawn, smaller sampans moored around them and three multi-tiered pagodas visible in the distance, the ivory sticks with three shaped oval landscape cartouches. The guardsticks 28cm (11in) long
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.jpg "Source: Christie's")
.jpg "Source: Christie's")
