A black-lacquered and chioniserie-decorated workbox

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A black-lacquered and chioniserie-decorated workbox
with overall polychrome decoration of courtly figures and floral and foliate arrangements, of serpentine outline, the hinged lid enclosing a silk upholstered interior fitted to reveal a compartment below, with a pair of shaped doors below, on square sectioned legs and block feet, early 19th century -- 14in. (36cm.) wide
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