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A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER COFFER ON A GILT-GESSO STAND
EARLY 18TH CENTURY,THE LACQUER RE-USED FROM AN EARLIER CHINESE SCREEN
The coffer decorated with insized pictures of flower-filled vases, utensils and symbols, with a hinged door, the sides with carrying-handles, the stand with a shaped apron centred by a shell on square hipped legs and scroll feet, the stand re-gessoed and re-gilded over the original gilding, the stand inscribed in blue chalk '1553'.
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 54¼ in. (138 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably supplied to Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Raynham (1675-1738) and by descent at Raynham until sold as part of The Townshend Heirlooms, Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1921, lot 48.
Acquired by Lord Leverhulme from Moss Harris & Sons on 23 December 1922 for £250.
William, Viscount Leverhulme; sold, The Anderson Galleries, New York, 26 February 1926, lot 278.
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire, (recorded in the Music Room in July 1939) and by descent.
Literature
C. Hussey, 'Trent Park - II', Country Life, 17 January 1931, p. 67, figs. 2 & 3 (shown in situ in the Drawing-Room at Trent).
A Catalogue of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, part I, M. Harris and Sons, circa 1934, p. 76.
'Trent Park', The Antique Collector, January, 1939, p. 347 (shown in situ in the Saloon (Music Room)).
J. Cornforth, The Inspiration of the Past, London, 1985, p. 68, fig. 65 (shown in situ in the Drawing-Room at Trent, 1931).
P. Stansky, Sasoon, The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 167 (same image).
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
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