EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Nagasaki lacquer work table
Edo Period (19th Century)
Inlaid overall with aogai flower sprays, the rectangular bordered top with a panel in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with a harbour scene, probably of the Nieuwe Stadsherberg, the public house on the River IJ in Amsterdam, set above a rectangular section with a fitted drawer and a silk-lined deep wood basket between the lyre-shaped sides joined by a flat stretcher on splayed feet (some old wear and minor retouches)
76 cm. high x 46.5 cm. wide x 31.5 cm. deep

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For a 1664 Dutch engraving of the Stadsherberg, which stood on the Amsterdam wharf from 1662 to 1872, see C. Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 108. In the words of Howard & Ayers, China for the West, p.193, this must have been where the V.O.C. sailors ...'spent their last hours before embarkation....and the first on their return'.

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