A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER DRESSING-COMMODE of serpentine form, the shaped rectangular twin-flap top decorated sans traverse with warriors in full ceremonial costume within a stylised foliate and rosette border enclosing a fitted black and gold-lacquer interior with lifting rectangular dressing-mirror to the reverse and thirteen lidded- compartments decorated with stylised sprays and numbered, the reverses of the flaps decorated with bamboo, flowers and birds, above a dentilled and beaded cornice and a simulated long drawer, decorated overall with baskets of flowers within a gold lacquer border with foliate-trails, above two tiers of three further drawers similarly- decorated around a shaped kneehole with three further short drawers and flanked by bamboo decoration to the interior of the kneehole, upon a beaded, panelled double bow-fronted plinth, the sides similarly decorated with Export porcelain and still-lives of flowers and fruit and with carrying-handles within a gilt-embossed border, on shaped bracket feet with rosette patera, last quarter 18th Century 84¼in. (112.5cm.) wide; 13¼in. (77cm.) high; 27¼in. (69cm.) deep
A CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER DRESSING-COMMODE of serpentine form, the shaped rectangular twin-flap top decorated sans traverse with warriors in full ceremonial costume within a stylised foliate and rosette border enclosing a fitted black and gold-lacquer interior with lifting rectangular dressing-mirror to the reverse and thirteen lidded- compartments decorated with stylised sprays and numbered, the reverses of the flaps decorated with bamboo, flowers and birds, above a dentilled and beaded cornice and a simulated long drawer, decorated overall with baskets of flowers within a gold lacquer border with foliate-trails, above two tiers of three further drawers similarly- decorated around a shaped kneehole with three further short drawers and flanked by bamboo decoration to the interior of the kneehole, upon a beaded, panelled double bow-fronted plinth, the sides similarly decorated with Export porcelain and still-lives of flowers and fruit and with carrying-handles within a gilt-embossed border, on shaped bracket feet with rosette patera, last quarter 18th Century 84¼in. (112.5cm.) wide; 13¼in. (77cm.) high; 27¼in. (69cm.) deep
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