EARLY 19TH CENTURY WITH CHINESE LACQUER TOP

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A REGENCY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED, EBONISED AND LACQUER SOFA TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY WITH CHINESE LACQUER TOP
With rounded rectangular twin-flap top decorated with Chinese figures in a landscape with a boat, above a pair of frieze drawers and a pair of simulated drawers on the reverse, on twin-column supports and hipped downswept legs issuing from a concave-sided platform, all with foliate mounts, caps and castors, partially remounted, restorations
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 57½ in. (146 cm.) wide, open; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 July 1996, lot 387.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

A sofa table with a top that appears to be by the same japanner was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 1985, lot 155. it features the same boat and has a gilt-bronze rim. The pillar and claw frame was popular in the 1820s, and various related patterns feature in Thomas King's Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified of 1829.

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