{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":26499,"auction_id":31,"set_id":52,"lot_number":"68","artist":"Aaron Arrowsmith (1750 - 1823)","title":"Chart of the Philippine Islands","starting_price":1600000,"signed_dated":"London, 1812 (1818)","medium":"hand-colored copperplate engraving  very good condition","size":"39 1/2” x 27” (100 cm x 69 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Extremely Rare and Unrecorded Chart of the Philippines<br /><br />  Aaron Arrowsmith’s Chart of the Philippine Islands is of the utmost rarity. First published in London in 1812, this 1818 state is unrecorded and previously unknown to scholars. At present, no institutional example of the 1818 state is known. After the 1734 Murillo-Velarde-Bagay-Suarez map, this is a coveted map showing the contested island of Baxo de Masingloc (Scarborough Shoal).<br /><br />  The chart shows the archipelago as it was known in 1818. The islands themselves break the frame of the map, emphasizing their size and number. Several ships’ tracks are included in this edition. The most prominent is that of the Descubierta and the Atrevida, the purposebuilt exploration used by Alejandro Malaspina on his Pacific survey that took in the state of the Spanish empire at the close of the eighteenth century.  <br /><br />The inclusion of this important Spanish expedition is also a reference to Arrowsmith’s sources, which were also Spanish. The Chart is based on the Carta general del Archipiélago de Filipinas / Levantada en 1792 y 93 by Felipe Bauzá. It was first published by the Spanish charting body, the Dirección Hidrográfica, in 1808.<br /><br />  The map is presented in a Conservation frame, with a UV filtering Museum Glass and acid-free mat board.","lot_group":"MAPS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1600000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1600000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1868800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":23918,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/31/52/lot/68.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":67,"next":69,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}