Live Auction 5911Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 289

A REGENCY BLACK AND POLYCHROME-JAPANNED TOLE TRAY-ON-STAND

THE TRAY EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE STAND LATE 20TH CENTURY

Closed4 August 2009

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GBP 1,250

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A REGENCY BLACK AND POLYCHROME-JAPANNED TOLE TRAY-ON-STAND
THE TRAY EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE STAND LATE 20TH CENTURY
The oval tray with a solid foliate-decorated gallery with pierced handles, centred by an oval scene of Una and her lion and a donkey, the stand with ring-turned splayed legs joined by an X-stretcher
20 in. (51 cm.) high; 30 in. (77 cm.) wide; 22¾ in. (57.5 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 March 2004, lot 2.

Specialist note

The scene is after Angelica Kauffmann (1741 - 1807) and depicts Una, a virgin whose name signifies Truth, with a guardian lion. The conception is from Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queen, 1596, I, Canto III,II. 44-7. Kauffmann's image was engraved by Burke in 1783.