The Chater Collection Pictures Relating To China Hongkong Macao 1655 1860 With Historical And

by James Orange

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, t.e.g. A very rare catalogue of an important early collection of art mostly oil paintings, watercolors, sketches, and prints from China, Hong Kong, and Macao. This remarkable volume chronicles the extraordinary collection amassed by Sir Catchick Paul Chater, a prominent British businessman of Armenian descent in Hong Kong, which was then a British colony. An energetic and innovative figure, Chater overcame

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