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A Chinese Export black and gilt lacquered davenport, early 19th century
with overall decoration incorporating courtly figures within a pagoda landscape, with pierced three-quarter gallery and leather-lined sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior with bone handled drawers flanked by a pen drawer, with a panelled door to each side enclosing four drawers, on inscrolled supports and a concave fronted platform base with gadrooned bun feet -- 26½in. (67.5cm.) wide
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with overall decoration incorporating courtly figures within a pagoda landscape, with pierced three-quarter gallery and leather-lined sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior with bone handled drawers flanked by a pen drawer, with a panelled door to each side enclosing four drawers, on inscrolled supports and a concave fronted platform base with gadrooned bun feet -- 26½in. (67.5cm.) wide
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