CIRCA 1750

Details

A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER BUREAU-ON-STAND
CIRCA 1750
Decorated throughout, the sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior above two drawers, previously fitted with a dressing-mirror
39½ in. (100 cm.) high; 29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Provenance

Sold Etude Couturier Nicolay, Paris, 14 June 1996, lot 78.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The George II period Cantonese bureau-dressing-table with fitted mirror (now lacking) belongs to a type popularly known as 'Union Suites'. One such bureau featured in John Carter's 1788 watercolour of the antiquarian Horace Walpole's parlour at Strawberry Hill (A. Chalcraft and J. Viscardi, Strawberry Hill, 2007, p. 29).

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