拍品专文
As China Traders made their way from the South China Sea up the Pearl River, guided by their Chinese hosts in pilot boats, they passed through first the Portuguese-named Boca Tigris and then arrived at their anchorage spot, Whampoa, part of a network of larger and smaller isles just outside Canton proper. Within these isles stood the two well-known Folly Forts, sometimes called "children's castles", and used by the Western companies for storage. This exotic scenery became part of the iconic imagery of the China Trade, appearing on a plate illustrated by Le Corbeiller (Patterns of Exchange, p. 96) as early as mid-18th century and on a Dutch armorial service (see Hervouet, op. cit, p. 21) circa 1760.