Lot 38
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A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE
A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE
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A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER GAMES TABLE

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details
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
Provenance
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.
Literature
M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1934, p. 114, fig. 109.
M. Jourdain, 'Bamboo Furniture', Country Life, 19 July 1946, p. 115, fig. 2.
F. Cattaneo (ed.), Roomscapes: The Decorative Architecture of Renzo Mongiardino, London, 1993, pp. 122-123.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

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).

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