Live Auction 8999Colefax and Fowler, Then and Now: Collections From Hambleden Manor, Lushill, and 39 Brook Street, Mayfair
A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER ALTAR TABLES
Lot 166

A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER ALTAR TABLES

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

Closed10 July 2013

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GBP 21,250

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A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER ALTAR TABLES
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each decorated overall with dragons amongst clouds chasing flaming pearls and with exotic birds to the side panels
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 74 1/8 in. (88.3 cm.) wide; 16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) deep, and slightly shallower (2)

The Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire, and by descent to Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke (1880-1960) and by descent to his daughter
Patricia Smith, Viscountess Hambleden (1904-1994), wife of William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948) and thence by descent at Hambleden Manor, Buckinghamshire.

Specialist note

These elegant tables, with their elongated 'altar' form and exotic decoration, were almost certainly inherited by the 3rd Viscount Hambleden through his wife, who was the daughter of the 15th Earl of Pembroke. Related pieces of Chinese and Chinese Export furniture remain at Wilton House, Wiltshire, some of which were undoubtedly inherited in the early 19th century from the Fitzwilliam family's Irish seat Coolattin, Co. Wicklow, such as the set of Chinese Export padouk dining-chairs in the Dining Room at Wilton.