Running Battle Antiques - 19th Century Clipper Ship and China Trade Paintings

CHINA TRADE SCHOOL
(Mid-19th century)

British Clipper Ship “Muskoka” off the China Coast

Oil on canvas. 21 1/2” x 31 1/2”

$17,500

EW105

EW105

CHINA TRADE SCHOOL
(Mid-19th century)

“Paul Revere,” an American Clipper Ship off the China coast

Oil on Canvas, 17 1/2” x 23 1/2”

$19,500

NE205

OCHIAI (Old spelling O-chi-Yai)
(Japanese, Second Half 19th century)

British-Built “Fiery Cross” in Nagasaki Harbor
The Fiery Cross, 695 tons, 185 feet long, was designed by William Rennie and built by Chaloner of Liverpool in 1860. Between 1860 and 1866 it won the annual Foochow-Liverpool tea clipper race four times with Richard Robinson as captain (see Basil Lubbock’s “The China Clippers,” p196 and “Clipper Ships” by David R. MacGregor, p. 106). Depicted here later in Nagasaki Harbor.

Rare example of ship portrait by Japanese port painter. Provenance: Norman Flayderman Coll, Ft Lauderdale, FL.
Gouache on Paper 19” x 31”
Inscribed “O-Chi-Yai, painter, nagasaki”
Black painted carved and pierced work frame
$65,000
NE10-05

NE1005

VENETIAN SCHOOL

“U. S. F. Constellation” entering the port of Venice with San Marco in the background.

The U. S. Frigate “Constellation” was built in Baltimore in 1797. After the War of 1812, she made trips to the Mediterranean (including service on the Barbary Coast in 1815) and the Far East, where she took part in the Opium War in 1841. She returned to Baltimore in 1845 and was broken up in 1852. Inscription on bottom is dated 1844.
Watercolor on paper 11 1/2” x 21”
$18,500
JR205

B.H. HANSEN
(German, mid-19th century)

“Brig Atalanta of Newcastle”

Watercolor on paper, 16” x 25”
Signed “B. H. Hansen, Hamburg” (Lower Right)

$9,000

TG20

China Trade and Clipper Ship Paintings