Lot Essay
This table is visible in the Chinese Drawing Room, now the Small Dining Room, in the photographs taken just before Lord Camrose bought the house in 1935.
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AN EDWARDIAN 'COROMANDEL LACQUER' WRITING-TABLE
The rectangular top incised with fans, vases of flowers and a landscape within a border of foliate scrolls, the three frieze drawers with scrolling dragons, on turned legs headed by cups and joiend by a shaped flat stretcher, with key pattern, the locks stamped 'COMYN CHING & CO. LTD LONDON'
54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep
The rectangular top incised with fans, vases of flowers and a landscape within a border of foliate scrolls, the three frieze drawers with scrolling dragons, on turned legs headed by cups and joiend by a shaped flat stretcher, with key pattern, the locks stamped 'COMYN CHING & CO. LTD LONDON'
54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep
Provenance
William Powlett, 4th Baron Bolton (1845-1922).
By descent to his son, by whom sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.
By descent to his son, by whom sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954).
Thence by descent.