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(ASIA)
A compelling album with 46 photographs from various sites in Asia, including China, Ceylon,
Singapore, Bangkok, and Colombo, as well as street scenes, urban canals, coconut plantations, coffee
plants, cocoa plants, domestic scenes, and portraits, each with hand-coloring, most in bright tones.
Hand-colored albumen prints, each approximately 8
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/
2
x10
1
/
2
inches (21.6x26.7 cm.) as well as two
oval images measuring 7
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/
8
x10 inches (18.7x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, almost 10 with a credit, and
nearly 20 with captions, all in the negative. Oblong folio, black lacquer covers with elaborate colored
ivory inlay depicting two roses and a bird, also with the word “China,” and a gilt-highlighted motif
depicting insects on the rear; leather backstrip; all edges gilt. 1880s
[3,000/4,500]
The photographer’s studios credited in this album include Apothecaries Co. Photographers in Colombo,
a studio in Ceylon, and Scowen and Co. (also in Ceylon).
From the Estate of Fong Chow.
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