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SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND TWO TONE GILT-LACQUERED AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID GAMES TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular top decorated with a dense border of lush foliage, dragons, precious objects, animals and figures surrounding a lifting panel depicting a mock battle scene in a courtyard with a scholar and attendants looking on, the reverse inlaid with a chessboard, the well inlaid with a backgammon board, the frieze with conforming decoration and fitted with a drawer, on a baluster standard and three dragon head carved cabriole legs, the underside with illegible paper label
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high, 35 in. (89 cm.) wide, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular top decorated with a dense border of lush foliage, dragons, precious objects, animals and figures surrounding a lifting panel depicting a mock battle scene in a courtyard with a scholar and attendants looking on, the reverse inlaid with a chessboard, the well inlaid with a backgammon board, the frieze with conforming decoration and fitted with a drawer, on a baluster standard and three dragon head carved cabriole legs, the underside with illegible paper label
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high, 35 in. (89 cm.) wide, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Property of a St. Louis Collector; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 15 November 1975, lot 212.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 1985, lot 326.
Bought from Kenneth Neame, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 1985, lot 326.
Bought from Kenneth Neame, London.