LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID LAC BURGAUTE TOLE TRAY
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The oval top with a pierced gallery, centred by a harbour scene within a Greek-key border and flanked by floral sprays, on a later simulated bamboo stand, with traces of earlier decoration under the lacquer
20 in. (51 cm.) high; 23 in. (59 cm.) wide; 17 ½ in. (44 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The present tray top may possibly depict the Isle of Deshima in the Bay of Nagaski. Deshima, also known as Dejima, was a man-made island constructed in Nagasaki harbor by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) in the mid-1630s. It was the only place in Japan where Westerners, first the Portuguese and then the Dutch, were allowed to reside from the 1630s to 1856 under the country's policy of national seclusion.

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