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The vessel

Related Images

  • Cargo boat, 19th century -  National Library of Australia - [CHRB 759.951 Z63F](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-153455792/view)
  • Fishing Junk - Victoria and Albert Museum - [8655:48](http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O92289/fishing-junk-painting-unknown/)

The foreground of this shell shows a boat with two animals, perhaps ponies or goats, attended by two people docked to a landing stage. The vessel is one of those ships with open wickerwork roof structures that served for fishing or transporting animals and other commodities across the waters of Guangzhou.

This boat is also being gazed at, but not by two men as is the case with the other shell ...