European Art & Old Masters: 500 Years

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.