Lot 460
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A JAPANESE EXPORT 'NAGASAKI' BLACK LACQUER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID SECRETAIRE
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A JAPANESE EXPORT 'NAGASAKI' BLACK LACQUER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID SECRETAIRE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A JAPANESE EXPORT 'NAGASAKI' BLACK LACQUER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID SECRETAIRE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Decorated throughout with flowers, blossoming trees and birds, with a frieze drawer the panel of the fall depicting a palace within a landscape, enclosing a fitted interior with an arched recess and arrangement of six drawers flanked by two secret drawers above further panel doors enclosing three long drawers
59½ in. (151 cm.) high; 38 in. (97 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Nagasaki, the techinque of colourful shell inlay on a black lacquer ground, was produced under Dutch instruction in Nagasaki from the late eighteenth century. The colourful decoration of floral and bird motifs follow the conventional Nagasaki designs of the period.

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