Lot 275: Youqua (active 1840-1870)

An interior with Chinese women and their attendants: and Chinese women and attendants in a courtyard garden
both with the artist's trade label 'Youqua Painter/old Street no 34' on the stretchers
oil on canvas
18 x 29 3/4 in. (45.7 x 75.6cm.)
Youqua was based in Hong Kong and Canton. For a brief review of his work, and the output of his contemporaries and their studios, specialising in silk covered pith paper watercolour albums produced for export, see C.L.Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, pp.198-202. (2)

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