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Another rare ‘Recamier’ or chaise lounge of padouk wood with and Ashie, known primarily through bills of sale and labels on trunks
caning, dated to 1800-1810, from the Manchester Historical Society, and boxes beginning in around 1805. He illustrates a rare and now
Manchester Massachusetts, of near identical form, is illustrated oft-cited gouache painting from the private collection of Benjamin
in The Magazine Antiques, February 1992, in an article by Carl L. Ginsburg, depicting the interior of a Canton cabinetmaker’s shop of
Crossman, China Trade Furniture, p. 334, Fig. 1, where the author around 1820 which shows a craftsman at work on remarkably similar
notes that little is known about the actual manufacture of furniture chaise lounge (Pl. II). This same gouache painting is better illustrated
in Canton (Guangzhou) but that nineteenth-century references, in Carl L. Crossman, The China Trade, Export Paintings, Furniture,
suggest it was made in Carpenters’ Square behind the western Silver and other Objects, Princeton, 1972, pp.142 and 145, pl.116.
traders’ quarter. He mentions three cabinetmakers, Ahning, Ashoe, and the ‘recamier’ models further discussed.

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