A JAPANESE EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER ('LAC BURGAUTE') LOW TABLE
A JAPANESE EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER ('LAC BURGAUTE') LOW TABLE

NAGASAKI, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A JAPANESE EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER ('LAC BURGAUTE') LOW TABLE
NAGASAKI, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
THE RECTANGULAR TOP DECORATED WITH A FLOWERING BASKET, OVER THREE FRIEZE DRAWERS, THE FRIEZE DECORATED WITH BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS, ON SQUARE TAPERING LEGS, WITH AN INDISTINCT LABEL ...I.S. WATTS/R.I./020, THE LEGS ARE EXTENDED

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THIS TABLE MAY HAVE BEEN MADE FOR EXPORT TO THE ISLE OF DESHIMA IN THE BAY OF NAGASKI. DESHIMA, ALSO KNOWN AS DEJIMA, WAS A MAN-MADE ISLAND CONSTRUCTED IN NAGASAKI HARBOR BY THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE (1603-1867) IN THE MID-1630S. IT WAS THE ONLY PLACE IN JAPAN WHERE WESTERNERS, FIRST THE PORTUGESE AND THEN THE DUTCH, WERE ALLOWED TO RESIDE FROM THE 1630S TO 1856 UNDER THE COUNTRY'S POLICY OF NATIONAL SECLUSION. A TABLE DISPLAYING THE SAME 'LAC BURGAUTE' DECORATION DEPICTING THE DUTCH STATION ON DESHIMA WAS OFFERED ANONYMOUSLY IN THESE ROOMS, 16 APRIL 1998, LOT 16.