拍品 69
69
AN ANGLO-CHINESE WHITE-METAL-MOUNTED PADOUK DRESSING-TABLE with part-hinged tripartite serpentine top banded in ebony and with boxwood stringing, enclosing a central mirrored section within an ebony frame flanked to each side by two calamander and amaranth-lined wells, above a green baize-lined slide and central sandalwood-lined drawer flanked by two long drawers, a fitted drawer and three false drawers grouped around a central kneehole with shaped apron, on tapering square cabriole legs and divided hoof feet with casters, mid-18th Century

細節
AN ANGLO-CHINESE WHITE-METAL-MOUNTED PADOUK DRESSING-TABLE with part-hinged tripartite serpentine top banded in ebony and with boxwood stringing, enclosing a central mirrored section within an ebony frame flanked to each side by two calamander and amaranth-lined wells, above a green baize-lined slide and central sandalwood-lined drawer flanked by two long drawers, a fitted drawer and three false drawers grouped around a central kneehole with shaped apron, on tapering square cabriole legs and divided hoof feet with casters, mid-18th Century
33in.(84cm.) wide; 30¼in.(76.5cm.) high; 18½in.(47cm.) deep

拍品專文

The combination of a sophisticated French Louis XV-inspired design and high quality suggest that this eastern-made dressing-table was constructed for export to Europe by Chinese craftsmen working under European supervision, either on the mainland or in one of the trading centres such as Manila or Batavia (see: V. Slomann, Burlington, November 1934, pp. 201-14). The shape seems to have been a speciality of Roger Vandercrusse, called Lacroix (he stamped RVLC), and an example by him is lot 46 in this sale