19TH CENTURY
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A Nagasaki Export lacquer travelling desk
19th Century
Inlaid in aogai decorated in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a roironuri ground, the top with a rectangular panel possibly depicting a street scene in Batavia or Buitenzorg (Indonesia), surrounded overall by scattered and trailing stems of flowers, the interior fitted with a writing slope covered in velvet, below a row of small compartments (some damages)
38 x 24 x 10.5 cm.
19th Century
Inlaid in aogai decorated in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on a roironuri ground, the top with a rectangular panel possibly depicting a street scene in Batavia or Buitenzorg (Indonesia), surrounded overall by scattered and trailing stems of flowers, the interior fitted with a writing slope covered in velvet, below a row of small compartments (some damages)
38 x 24 x 10.5 cm.