Lai Afong
China, 1870S
Estimate: 1.500 - 2.000 GBP
Price realised: 4.063 GBP
Price realised: 4.063 GBP
Description
LAI AFONG
China, 1870s
Album of 37 albumen prints and 3 2-part albumen print panoramas.
Each approx. 6½ x 9¼in. (17 x 23.3cm.) or reverse; panoramas, each approx. 8 x 21in. (20.5 x 51cm.) One signed in negative, each with printed title and number on label on mount. Each mounted one-per-page. 'No.54 Queen's Road, Hong Kong' credit label on front free endpaper. Blue cloth, gilt.
Album size: 12¼ x 15¾in. (31 x 40cm.)
China, 1870s
Album of 37 albumen prints and 3 2-part albumen print panoramas.
Each approx. 6½ x 9¼in. (17 x 23.3cm.) or reverse; panoramas, each approx. 8 x 21in. (20.5 x 51cm.) One signed in negative, each with printed title and number on label on mount. Each mounted one-per-page. 'No.54 Queen's Road, Hong Kong' credit label on front free endpaper. Blue cloth, gilt.
Album size: 12¼ x 15¾in. (31 x 40cm.)
A top price for Lai Afong
This artwork by Lai Afong achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in November 2004. In the 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS auction, the work China, 1870S sold for GBP 4,063.00 (€ 5,844.60) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 2,000.00. This high result makes China, 1870S the most expensive artwork by Lai Afong that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Lai Afong
Dieses Kunstwerk von Lai Afong erzielte im November 2004 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS wurde die Arbeit China, 1870S für GBP 4.063,00 (€ 5.844,60) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 2.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht China, 1870S zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Lai Afong, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Lai Afong - Auction history
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