Lot Essay
This sideboard is the pair to the commode sold in these rooms, 18 December 2002, lot 687
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CIRCA 1780-1795
Details
A Dutch satinwood, harewood, marquetry, black and gilt-japanned sideboard 'klapbuffet'
Circa 1780-1795
Banded and crossbanded overall, the moulded rectangular canted hinged top with two hinged shelves to the reverse and an open compartment (lacking pewter basin), with a drawer to each side, above a door centred by a panel decorated with stylised Chinese landscape with pagodas, flanked to either side by a circular panel decorated with various flowers and suspended from a ribbon-tie, enclosing a plain interior with one shelf, on square tapering legs, on brass bun feet
95.5cm. high x 127.5cm. wide x 58cm. deep
See illustration
Circa 1780-1795
Banded and crossbanded overall, the moulded rectangular canted hinged top with two hinged shelves to the reverse and an open compartment (lacking pewter basin), with a drawer to each side, above a door centred by a panel decorated with stylised Chinese landscape with pagodas, flanked to either side by a circular panel decorated with various flowers and suspended from a ribbon-tie, enclosing a plain interior with one shelf, on square tapering legs, on brass bun feet
95.5cm. high x 127.5cm. wide x 58cm. deep
See illustration
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