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PROPERTY DEACCESSIONED FROM HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION
(LOTS 109-118)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL FAUX-TORTOISESHELL AND BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED ENCOIGNURES
MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER DECORATED OVER A VENEERED SURFACE
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL FAUX-TORTOISESHELL AND BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED ENCOIGNURES
Mid-18th Century and later decorated over a veneered surface
Each later simulated green marble top with bowed front and molded edge overhanging a conforming case with two doors enclosing a shelf, each with a quatrafoil reserve containing a Chinese landscape with a pagoda among wooded rocky cliffs to one door and courtly figures in a garden to the other, the outset angles above three short cabriole legs, decoration possibly 19th century
35in. (89cm.) high, 34½in. (87.5cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep (2)
Mid-18th Century and later decorated over a veneered surface
Each later simulated green marble top with bowed front and molded edge overhanging a conforming case with two doors enclosing a shelf, each with a quatrafoil reserve containing a Chinese landscape with a pagoda among wooded rocky cliffs to one door and courtly figures in a garden to the other, the outset angles above three short cabriole legs, decoration possibly 19th century
35in. (89cm.) high, 34½in. (87.5cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep (2)