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Thomas Chippendale’s Pattern for ‘Buroe Tables’ in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director,
1st Edition, 1754, pl. XLVI.

PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION
145 Y W
A FINE AND RARE CHINESE HUALI KNEEHOLE DESK OR Provenance
‘BUROE’ DRESSING TABLE/DESK IN THE MANNER OF Michael and Jane Dunn Antiques, Claverack, NY, 24 October 1984
THOMAS CHIPPENDALE The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts,
Circa 1760 1984-present
Supported on double bracket feet and set with six short drawers and
one long drawer surrounding the kneehole opening which is itself set Published
with two drawers and an open shelf with simple but rare arch bracket Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings,
above, each drawer has Chinese paktong (baitong) fitted key holes Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities, Antique Collector’s Club, Suffolk,
and handle plates with swan-neck handles, the sides with larger UK, 1991, p. 230, Color Plate 82
carrying handles, all set below a molded-edge top, the underside of The Magazine Antiques, February 1992, in an article by Carl L.
most of the drawers’ bear Chinese number characters in black-ink Crossman, ‘China Trade Furniture’, p. 334, Pl. V. and p. 337
and seven drawers bear a western paper label (Dutch) identifying
its contents or use, the desk with an especially brilliant honey-toned Exhibited
original patina to the surface. Peabody Museum, Salem Massachusetts (now the Peabody Essex
29 3/4in (75.6cm) high; 44 1/4in (112.4cm) wide; 27 5/8in (70cm) deep Museum), ‘Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection,
1986-1988
$25,000 - 35,000
十八世紀 花梨英式齊本德爾風格辦公桌

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