An early 19th century Chinese Export black lacquered dressing table glass
heightened with gilt chinoiseries, the oval plate swing frame mirror with a pierced interlaced cresting, with trailing leaves, above a serpentine moulded base decorated with a mountain landscape with later central monogram of an 'E' and a coronet, above two serpentine drawers, on shaped bracket feet, 51cm wide, 30cm deep, 74cm high (20" wide, 11.5" deep, 29" high).
Estimate:
£800 - 1,200
€940 - 1,400
US$ 1,300 - 1,900
€940 - 1,400
US$ 1,300 - 1,900
Footnotes
- Provenance: purchased Sotheby's London, 6 December 1963, lot 121
A related Chinese Export dressing table glass bearing the label of Town and Emanuel, the New Bond Street 'dealers in & Manufacturers of antique furniture, curoisities and pictures' is illustrated in the C.Gilbert, Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds 1996, p.453, pl.912.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Sculpture and Works of Art
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