Live Auction 6534Christie's Interiors
A CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK AND GILT LACQUERED TOILET-MIRROR
Lot 347

A CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK AND GILT LACQUERED TOILET-MIRROR

SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

Closed31 July 2012

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GBP 1,750

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A CHINESE-EXPORT BLACK AND GILT LACQUERED TOILET-MIRROR
SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with chinoiserie, with a bevelled painted mirror plate, with two serpentine drawers underneath, the bottom with two longer drawers with escutcheons and handles, all the drawers fitted with shaped lacquered boxes
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 16 in. (41 cm.) wide

Specialist note

This dressing mirror with its undulating form, stepped cabinet and mirror plate is tupical of work produced at the end of the 18th Century in Canton for the European and American markets. Related dressing mirrors are illustrated in C. Crossman, The China Trade, Suffolk, 1991, pp. 283-286