18TH CENTURY

Details

A Chinese export black and gilt-lacquer coffer
18th century
Of large proportions, the domed hinged top above a rectangular body decorated overall with borders of scrolling foliage and scenes of Oriental landscapes, on a later ebonised stand with square tapering legs
72in. (183cm.) wide, 41in. (104cm.) high, 37¼in. (94.5cm.) deep

Provenance

The Earls Manvers, Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire and by descent, until sold Sotheby's House Sale, 31 May-2 June 1989, lot 34.

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Lot Essay

The Chinese chest displays a landscape of waterside pavilions within a flowered frame, and relates to early 18th century screens such as that illustrated in A. Setterwall, The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm, Stockholm, 1972, p. 140. A dome-lidded chest, decorated with a similar landscape and bearing the armorials of Sir Robert Child (d. 1721), may have been commissioned around 1715 on his election as Chairman of the Honourable East India Company (sold anonymously, Christie's London, 3 July 1997, lot 16).

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