Sale 2776
New York
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9 October 2013
Price realised
USD 4,000
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK, GILT AND POLYCHROME-LACQUER CABINET LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY With a pair of doors opening to a rotating octagonal bank of eighty small drawers, flanked by further divided drawers 35½ in. (90 cm.) high, 31 in. (79 cm.) wide, 22½ in. (57 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 March 1984, lot 611.
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