A WILLIAM IV BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CHIFFONIER

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A WILLIAM IV BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CHIFFONIER
Decorated overall with laticework, foliage, and mountainous river landscape scenes with figures, temples and houses, the scrolled shaped top above a rectangular shelf on lyre-end supports, above three small drawers with dark-red painted interiors, and an eared rectangular hinged flap enclosing a faded red felt-lined writing-surface, above a frieze drawer, and a pair of panelled doors enclosing a removable shelf, on square tapering feet
33in. (84cm.) wide; 55½in. (141cm.) high; 18in. (46cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The Oriental willow-tree landscape with three people on a bridge beside tea houses in fenced gardens, derived from a Chinese pattern entitled 'Mandarin' and copied by English potters such as Josiah Spode. However unlike the regular 'willow pattern', no love-birds are depicted in its gardens.

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