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A REGENCY POLYCHROME AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE TRAY
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A REGENCY POLYCHROME AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE TRAY

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY POLYCHROME AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE TRAY
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Of rounded rectangular form with everted lip depicting Chinamen carrying porcelain dishes from a kiln, the reverse with detachable later hook, and stamped '..AYER OBLIQUE WARRANT...'
11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.5 cm.)
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Lot Essay

A closely related rectangular 'straight-edge' tray marked by Henry Clay (d. 1812), the leading the papier-mâché japanners of King Street, Covent Garden, whose business was established there in 1802 is preserved at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery & Museums (Y. Jones, Georgian & Victorian Japanned Wares of the West Midlands, Wolverhampton, 1982, p. 107, cat. no. 239). Another chinoiserie-decorated, straight-edge tray bears the mark of the Wolverhampton japanner Thomas Illidge, circa 1810 (ibid., Ex25, p. 89).

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