RARE 1860S CDV ALBUMEN PHOTO EMPEROR OF CHINA / CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHER ambrotype circa 1880

circa 1880

From a Massachusetts seller

Behind her is a live bird in a cage

Very rare quarter-plate daguerreotype of poet

RARE 1860S CDV ALBUMEN PHOTO EMPEROR OF CHINA / CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHER ambrotype circa 1880Original albumen image on its original approximate 4" x 2. 5" mount. On the back in period handwritten ink is, "Supposed Carte of the late Emperor of China". This is an old CDV produced in China, by a Chinese photographer in early 1860s, and was part of a larger collection of CDVS I acquired that were either taken by, or distributed by Hong Kong photographer N'Gha Chan. This one does not have that info, but other CDVs from this collection have Chan's