(a Lot) A Chinese export black and gilt lacquered travelling writing desk CANTON, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY Decorated overall with raised trefoil leaves within stiff-leaf borders and centred by a shaped panel painted with landscapes, the top also inscribed with initials C.T.Y. for Cornelis Thomas Yzendoorn, the hinged lid with two hinged blue velvet-lined panels to the inside forming a writing slope below four various fitted compartments for writing utensils, brass carrying handles to the sides 18 cm. high x 46 cm. wide x 25 cm. deep Sold with Cornelis Thomas Yzendoorn's diary, between 1814 - 1819, four medical certificates dated 1814, 1818 and 1821, eleven letters of recomendation, six personal letters and six drawings of various vessels
(a Lot) A Chinese export black and gilt lacquered travelling writing desk CANTON, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY Decorated overall with raised trefoil leaves within stiff-leaf borders and centred by a shaped panel painted with landscapes, the top also inscribed with initials C.T.Y. for Cornelis Thomas Yzendoorn, the hinged lid with two hinged blue velvet-lined panels to the inside forming a writing slope below four various fitted compartments for writing utensils, brass carrying handles to the sides 18 cm. high x 46 cm. wide x 25 cm. deep Sold with Cornelis Thomas Yzendoorn's diary, between 1814 - 1819, four medical certificates dated 1814, 1818 and 1821, eleven letters of recomendation, six personal letters and six drawings of various vessels
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