Asian Art II - Part One - 22 May 2024
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A CHINESE BLACK LACQUER AND GILT-DECORATED TOILETTE MIRROR
£800 - £1,200
A CHINESE BLACK LACQUER AND GILT-DECORATED TOILETTE MIRROR
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With two tiers, each with twin bracket-shaped drawers, the upper tier fitted with a shield-form mirror, decorated all over with a continuous fruiting grapevine and trellis design, 70.5cm x 42cm x 30cm.
Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.
Cf. A related example in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no.41.321-0. See also, CL Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, p.84, pls.161-163.
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