A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUERED WORK TABLE, 19th century, the hinged rectangular top embelished on either side with decoration depicting a Chinese scene, opening to a fitted interior over a conforming frieze and turned legs, on gilded bracket hairy-paw feet headed by palmettes joined by a stretcher, appears to retainoriginal ivory fittings, --28½ in. high, 24¼ in. wide, 16¼ in. deep

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A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUERED WORK TABLE, 19th century, the hinged rectangular top embelished on either side with decoration depicting a Chinese scene, opening to a fitted interior over a conforming frieze and turned legs, on gilded bracket hairy-paw feet headed by palmettes joined by a stretcher, appears to retainoriginal ivory fittings, --28½ in. high, 24¼ in. wide, 16¼ in. deep
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Chinese lacquered exported furniture was greatly valued in the American Market, for a further disscussion of export lacquered furniture see Carl Crossman,Decorative Arts of the China Trade(Suffolk, England, 1991)

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