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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

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A CINNABAR LACQUER ‘SCROLL’ TABLE
19TH CENTURY

清十九世紀 剔紅纏枝蓮紋几

The low rectangular table has two scroll-shaped feet and each long side is ftted with three drawers. The top is carved with a wan pattern, the sides with large
lotus cartouches and the doors with diapers enclosing fower heads.

6æ in. (17.3 cm.) high x 19æ in. (50 cm.) wide x 10¡ in. (26.3 cm.) deep

£1,000-1,500                                                                         $1,600-2,300
                                                                                     €1,400-2,000

PROVENANCE:

A distinguished private European collection, acquired between 1956-1959.

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A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED LACQUER TRIANGULAR SIDE                                PROVENANCE:
TABLES
19TH CENTURY                                                                    A distinguished private European collection, acquired between 1956-1959.

清十九世紀 大漆描金山水圖三角形几一對

Each triangular top is decorated with fgures at leisure on a fenced and raised
platform within a river landscape scene, above waisted openwork rope-and-
coin aprons. The outward-curving legs are decorated with lotus and scrolling
tendrils above a triangular foor stretcher.

19æ in. (50 cm.) high, 21Ω in. (55 cm.) wide                              (2)

£800-1,200                                    $1,300-1,800
                                              €1,100-1,600

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