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Surname	Chinqua	Alternative Surname
First Name	Amoy	Initial of Surname	C
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1716
Year of Death
Biographical Details	A Cantonese face-modeller, he signs a large figure, in painted plaster, of Joseph Collet, a merchant and administrator in Sumatra and Madras (1). Another statuette of an unidentified westerner is inscribed ‘Amoy Chinquafe 1717’ and is in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem. Literary References: Crossman 1991, 307