Lot 170
170
A BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED SIDE TABLE, the eared serpentine top inset with an 18th Century Chinese lacquer panel with birds amidst foliage and rockwork, the frieze decorated with birds and baskets of flowers and centred by a scroll, on canted square legs with rounded fronts

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A BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED SIDE TABLE, the eared serpentine top inset with an 18th Century Chinese lacquer panel with birds amidst foliage and rockwork, the frieze decorated with birds and baskets of flowers and centred by a scroll, on canted square legs with rounded fronts
54¼in. (138cm.) wide; 32¾in. (83cm.) high; 23in. (58.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The design of this table derives from mid-18th Century tea-tables such as those at Harewood House and Osterley Park. A Chinese table with very similarly shaped frieze was sold at Christie's, New York, 2 February 1991, lot 186. A related George III side table was sold at Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1988, lot 96.

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