LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY, RESTORATIONS TO DECORATION

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AN ENGLISH DECORATED AND WHITE-JAPANNED CHEST
LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY, RESTORATIONS TO DECORATION
Decorated with chinoiserie scenes with pagodas in lakeside settings with figures amoungst blossoming branches with butterflies and insects, fitted with two short and three long drawers, on later bun feet, previously with bun handles, restorations to the decoration
33¾in. (86cm.) high; 39in. (99cm.) wide; 23½in. (59.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Ashburnham House, by repute.

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Lot Essay

The chest, of late l7th Century form, is japanned in the so-called 'India' or Chinese fashion popularised by J. Stalker and G. Parker's, Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, Oxford, 1688. In the early 1770s Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) introduced related 'landscape' white-ground japanning for the actor David Garrick's bedroom furnishings (L. Galbraith, Garrick's Furniture at Hampton, Apollo, July, 1972, pp.46-55).
This chest is believed to have been purchased by David Style from Sotheby's Ashburnham Place House Sale, 7 - 9 July 1953. Apparently this lot is not in the Ashburnham Place House Sale catalogue or in subsequent catalogues for Bond Street sales in the same year.
The chest was bought as black lacquer which David Style removed to reveal earlier decoration.

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