A CHINESE EXPORT HARDWOOD KNEEHOLE DESK

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE EXPORT HARDWOOD KNEEHOLE DESK
Mid-18th Century
The rectangular moulded top with inset brown leather writing-surface, above three short frieze drawers and a central kneehole with a recessed panelled door with four folio compartments, flanked by three short drawers, the sides with later carrying-handles, on later moulded mahogany bracket feet, the undersides of the drawers with Chinese characters
50in. (127cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 26in. (66cm.) deep

Lot Essay

With its recessed commode compartment between drawer-filled pedestals on bracket feet it relates to a 'Bureau Table' pattern illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director of 1754, pl. XL1.

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