Lot Essay
A closely related dressing-table with slightly more elaborate angle mounts is in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace and illustrated in C. Hussey, Buckingham Palace, London, 1931, fig. 313.
THE PROPERTY OF MRS H. A. DU BOULAY
A LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN POUDREUSE
Details
A LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN POUDREUSE
Decorated overall with river landscape scenes with houses, pagodas and figures, the rounded rectangular top with a later central mirror flanked on the left by a deep material-lined well and on the right by a shallow conforming-lined well, above a conforming slide and a conforming-lined drawer, flanked by a small drawer on the right and a simulated drawer on the left, above a shaped apron to the front, sides and reverse, and on cabriole legs headed by acanthus and C-scroll mounts with scrolled acanthus sabots, one leg with restored break, remounted, restorations
31 in. (78.5 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) deep
Decorated overall with river landscape scenes with houses, pagodas and figures, the rounded rectangular top with a later central mirror flanked on the left by a deep material-lined well and on the right by a shallow conforming-lined well, above a conforming slide and a conforming-lined drawer, flanked by a small drawer on the right and a simulated drawer on the left, above a shaped apron to the front, sides and reverse, and on cabriole legs headed by acanthus and C-scroll mounts with scrolled acanthus sabots, one leg with restored break, remounted, restorations
31 in. (78.5 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
The late Col. Sir Jervoise Scott Bt., Rotherfield Park, Christie's house sale, 21 April 1959, lot 382 (220 gns.).
Sale room notice
This lot is sold as the property of A.J.h. du Foulay, Esq.