Lot 455
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A CHINESE COLONIAL HARLEQUIN BUREAU CABINET
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A CHINESE COLONIAL HARLEQUIN BUREAU CABINET

CIRCA 1800

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A CHINESE COLONIAL HARLEQUIN BUREAU CABINET
CIRCA 1800
With a hinged top revealing a rising compartment fitted with pigeon holes, drawers and divided recess and with a hinged baize lined writing slope, the frieze with an arrangment of false and true drawers carved with oval rosettes and with brass ring handles on panelled square tapering legs with moulded gaiters
46½in. (118cm.) high, 36½in. (93cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

A closely related desk, brought from Canton to Salem, Massachusetts, c.1800 by Captain William Cleveland, and later in the Collection of the Essex Institute, is illustrated in Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, The Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1991. Crossman refers in his text to a second, unprovenanced desk which is carved with oval rosettes, a feature characteristic of furniture made in Canton for the English and American markets.

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