Lot 23
JOHN BENTHAM DINSDALE (BRITISH 1927-2006) "THE TAEPING"
Sale 5353 - European Art & Old Masters: 500 Years
Feb 27, 2019
7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$2,625
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Lot Description
JOHN BENTHAM DINSDALE (BRITISH 1927-2006) "THE TAEPING"
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, sale of December 14, 2006, lot 91.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Private Collection, Virginia.
NOTE:
The Taeping was an English tea clipper built in 1863 by Robert Steele & Company at Greenock. Designed for Captain Alexander Rodgers, it participated in the Great Tea Race of 1866 and narrowly defeated the ship Ariel. After a notable career and many other tea races, Taeping was wrecked on Ladd's Reef in the South China Sea, on its way from Amoy to New York.
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