Lot 72
Hardoon's Garden, Shanghai
photographs by Jack Bowes
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
a collection of 9 rare silver gelatin prints, each 7 x 11cm, depicting Hardoon's Garden (miniature pagoda, goldfish pagoda, fountain, rockeries and buildings, boating lake, “Mr S Hardoon Millionaire”), captioned but loose in small album, 21 x 15cm
Footnote
In the early 20th century, Silas Hardoon was known as the richest man in Shanghai. He completed his gardens - known as Aili Garden - in 1909, on the plot where the Shanghai Exhibition Centre is now located. The garden was destroyed by fire in 1943, and photographs of the garden are almost unheard of.