Two Panoramas of Shanghai.

£4,800 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The panorama of the Shanghai Bund prominently features a number of foreign warships, namely the British flagship HMS Hawkins, the French flagship Jules Michelet, as well as the US flagship Pittsburgh, who gathered in June 1927 as a show of force in the wake of the Shanghai massacre. The panorama of downtown Shanghai shows the Race Course alongside Bubbling Well Road, panning round towards Thibet Road (with a large billboard advertising Lactogen) and down Nankin Road, prominently featuring the tailor Chong Shung Co. on the corner. Chiyo Yoko was a Japanese photographic supply store on 470 Nanking Road, which had been founded by Shimozato Yakichi in 1910. They were agents for some of the leading German camera-makers, incl. Carl Zeiss, C. P. Goerz, Contessa Voigtländer. Both panoramas were wrapped in Chiyo Yoko wrapping paper and are housed in the original metal transport tubes.

• Year: 1920

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