拍品 79
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A CHINESE EXPORT ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
A CHINESE EXPORT ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
A CHINESE EXPORT ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
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A CHINESE EXPORT ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE

CIRCA 1800

細節
A CHINESE EXPORT ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
CIRCA 1800
The rounded rectangular twin-flap top with ebony and satinwood banding, above three frieze drawers, the supports terminating with rectangular panelled bases and splayed feet with brass caps and castors, two drawers indistinctly inscribed to the undersides 'Napoleon / writing table' in white chalk to one and pencil to the other, with label 'FINBOW & SONS LTD. CAMBRIDGE 05447'
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 59 ¼ in. (150.5 cm.) wide, open; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
來源
By repute, The Emperor Napoleon (according to inscription).
Charles Orr Stanley (1899-1989), 3 Lowndes Place, Belgravia, and subsequently Lisselan House, County Cork, Ireland, and by descent.
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Whilst descriptions of furniture in the inventories of Longwood House, St. Helena, in general prohibit a firm identification of this writing-table, there were at least nine writing-tables recorded at Longwood. It is interesting to note that at this time furniture of English design was being made by Chinese carpenters who were resident on St. Helena. For example, in May 1818 a fauteuil de malade was created by a Chinese carpenter from a design by Andrew Darling, who worked for the cabinet-maker George Bullock, and was delivered to Longwood (M. Levy, 'Napoleon in Exile: The Houses and Furniture supplied by the British Government for the Emperor and his Entourage on St. Helena', Furniture History, 1998, p. 36). Furthermore, Chinese hardwood chairs were being ordered directly from China for Longwood, although these have yet to be traced, and Chinese bamboo chairs were amongst the furnishings which returned to Europe on the ship, the Camel, immediately after Napoleon's death (ibid., p. 48, p. 88 f/n 196).

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