
Philippa Iles
Senior Sale Coordinator



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Head of Sale
Provenance
The artist's collection and thence by descent.
Anon. sale, Bonhams, London, 12 Apr 2017, lot 30.
Private collection, UK (purchased from the above).
Along with Taeping, Eliza Shaw and Yang-tze, Black Prince was one of the first tea clippers built of composite construction (wooden planking over iron frames). Designed by William Rennie and launched at Aberdeen in 1863, Black Prince had a successful career as a clipper, although she was never a record breaker. Whilst capable of great speed, she was 'handicapped by a very careful captain [Inglis] who should never have had command of a tea clipper.'* On the 5th August 1882, bound from Manila to London, Black Prince was wrecked on Arendo Reef and lost in the Java sea.
*B. Lubbock, The China Clippers, Glasgow, 1914, p.207