A black lacquer and gilt chinoiserie bureau bookcase
£1,200
Auction: 17 February 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
in the early 18th century style, the projecting cornice above a pair of re-entrant arched and mirrored doors with bevelled plates enclosing shelves and a pair of candleslides, the shallow sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior with leather skiver and sliding well above two short and two long graduated drawers with brass drop handles and backplates, on high bracket feet, the whole decorated with boating figures and riverside pagodas within foliate diaper borders, in flat and raised ground lacquer
Dimensions
109cm wide, 204cm high, 57cm deep