Live Auction 7586West ~ East - The Niall Hobhouse Collection
A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER BUREAU-ON-STAND
Lot 328

A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER BUREAU-ON-STAND

CIRCA 1750

Closed22 May 2008

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GBP 5,250

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A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER BUREAU-ON-STAND
CIRCA 1750
Decorated throughout, the sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior above two drawers, previously fitted with a dressing-mirror
39½ in. (100 cm.) high; 29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Sold Etude Couturier Nicolay, Paris, 14 June 1996, lot 78.

Specialist note

The George II period Cantonese bureau-dressing-table with fitted mirror (now lacking) belongs to a type popularly known as 'Union Suites'. One such bureau featured in John Carter's 1788 watercolour of the antiquarian Horace Walpole's parlour at Strawberry Hill (A. Chalcraft and J. Viscardi, Strawberry Hill, 2007, p. 29).