A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER COFFER ON A GILT-GESSO STAND
EARLY 18TH CENTURY,THE LACQUER RE-USED FROM AN EARLIER CHINESE SCREEN
The coffer decorated with insized pictures of flower-filled vases, utensils and symbols, with a hinged door, the sides with carrying-handles, the stand with a shaped apron centred by a shell on square hipped legs and scroll feet, the stand re-gessoed and re-gilded over the original gilding, the stand inscribed in blue chalk '1553'.
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 54¼ in. (138 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
A GEORGE I BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER COFFER ON A GILT-GESSO STAND
EARLY 18TH CENTURY,THE LACQUER RE-USED FROM AN EARLIER CHINESE SCREEN
The coffer decorated with insized pictures of flower-filled vases, utensils and symbols, with a hinged door, the sides with carrying-handles, the stand with a shaped apron centred by a shell on square hipped legs and scroll feet, the stand re-gessoed and re-gilded over the original gilding, the stand inscribed in blue chalk '1553'.
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 54¼ in. (138 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep