Live Auction 17737The Collection of Drue Heinz Townhouses in London and New York with interiors by John Fowler and Renzo Mongiardino
A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE
Lot 38

A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed4 June 2019

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A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular top with a chessboard and counter dishes to the corners, decorated overall with scrolling-foliage, above a frieze drawer, the frieze with pierced carving, on ring-turned faux bamboo legs
26 ¾ in. (68 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Almost certainly supplied to Sir John Coxe Hippisley for Ston Easton Park, Somerset and by descent to:
Commander Richard John Bayntun Hippisley C.B.E until sold,
Ston Easton Park (house sale); sold Powell and Powell, Bath, 27-30 November, 1956, lot 448.
Mallett, London, where acquired, 12 June 1963.

Specialist note

Bamboo furniture was considered appropriate to interiors in the Chinese taste in the 18th and 19th centuries culminating in a series of cabinets and chairs made by the Royal cabinet-makers Elward, Marsh and Tatham for George IV for the Brighton pavilion (see G. Walkling, Antique Bamboo Furniture, London, 1979, pp. 21-28).