Lot Essay
A similar early 18th century japanned and parcel-gilt decorated table at Longford Castle, Wiltshire is illustrated in R. Edwards The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, p. 542, fig.4
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An early Georgian blue and gilt japanned lowboy
Decorated overall with lions, flowers and foliage, the moulded rectangular top with re-entrant front corners and central raised scene with Chinese figures in a palace, containing a short drawer and two deep drawers in the shaped arched apron, on cabriole legs with pad feet, inscribed in chalk to the reverse Mr Black, some renewal to the decoration, legs probably replaced
30in. (78cm.) wide, 29in. (74cm.) high, 19in. (50cm.) deep
Decorated overall with lions, flowers and foliage, the moulded rectangular top with re-entrant front corners and central raised scene with Chinese figures in a palace, containing a short drawer and two deep drawers in the shaped arched apron, on cabriole legs with pad feet, inscribed in chalk to the reverse Mr Black, some renewal to the decoration, legs probably replaced
30in. (78cm.) wide, 29in. (74cm.) high, 19in. (50cm.) deep
Provenance
Mr Black