CIRCA 1800

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A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE
CIRCA 1800
The twin-flap foldover top fitted on the interior with candlestands and counter wells and centering a recessed well with a backgammon board, the frieze with a drawer on fluted square tapering legs and block feet, losses, checkerboard redecorated
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 38 in. (97 cm.) wide, extended, 39 in. (99 cm.) deep

注意事項

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

拍品專文

This interesting Chinese Export games table in the English taste is inspired by the designs published by George Hepplewhite in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, of 1794. The form relates closely to a table thought to have been acquired in China by a member of the Lyman family of Boston at the turn of the 19th century and now in the collection of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (illustrated in C. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of The China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, p.270, fig.147). A similar pair of tables was sold by the Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation, Sotheby's, New York, 18-19 April 2002, lot 345 ($32,862).

According to the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Archives, this table was purchased by Marie Mealand in London.