$2,370
Album of Gouache Paintings, China, 19th century, ink and colors on rice paper, an album of twenty-nine leaves, twenty-one depicting Buddhist images, eight of legendary people in Chinese history, hard cover, 10 1/2 x 6 in. Provenance: Ex. Bonhams from collection of James Russel Brazier, Chief Secretary of the Imperial Maritime Customs, China, from 1899. His daughter Helen Hope Brazier (1899-1999) (who had the book S. Hoe, Women At the Siege, Peking 1900, Oxford, 2000, dedicated to her memory as 'the last survivor of the Western women in Peking' at the time of the Boxer Rebellion). Thence by descent in a private Scottish collection. Water stain and creases to some pages; the colors are well preserved
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-06-26
