This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2013, with the caption:
Fig. 6.32. Lai Fong (Afong Studio). ‘No. 626. – A late Opium Merchant of Hongkong who obtained the honorary distinction of the rank of a Mandarin by purchase’, 1870s. The carpet, curtain and skirting board are the same as those in the carte de visite portrait shown in fig. A56. The sitter is the same as in fig. 6.33. Author’s Collection.
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