Fine Chinese export red lacquer occasional table circa 1820

A fine quality Chinese export lacquer occasional table. Ca 1820.

Measures:
W: 48cm (19″) tripod base
D: 91cm (35 1/2″)
H: 81cm (32″)

BHA 1177


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Description

A fine quality Chinese export lacquer occasional table. Early-19th century, ca 1820.

The tilt top with typical exotic scenes of people, pagodas, lakes, foliage, bridges, fishermen and boats, all set with interconnecting islands. On a deep, rich, red ground, raised by a decorated column with a ”birdcage” action and terminating with unusual well-carved gilt animal paw feet.

In lovely condition throughout, and in a rare colour.

Refs:

English Chinoiserie, japanning & lacquering. – Box House …boxhouse-antiques.com › Antique Furniture  

V&A · The Influence Of East Asian Lacquer On European …www.vam.ac.uk › articles › east-asian-lacquer-influence

Lacquerware of East Asia | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum …www.metmuseum.org › toah › elac › hd_elac

Gillian Walkling, Chinese Export FurnitureAntique Finder Magazine, April 1977

Margaret Jourdain and Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the 18th
Century, Spring Publ 
(1967)

Carl Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade (1991)

“Tortoiseshell & Gold”: Robert Davis and the Art of Japanning TARA HINGSTON CEDERHOLM AND CHRISTINE PALMER THOMSON

www.colonialsociety.org › publications › tortoiseshell-g…

The development of English black japanning 1620-1820 …Katja Tovar Azuero Conservation Journal, Spring 2006 Issue 52

www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation...

https://library.si.edu/donate/adopt-a-book/treatise-japanning-and-varnishing

Japanese export lacquer 1580-1850 is the first full treatment of lacquerware made to European demand, its transportation and the lacquer market in Europe as well as the effect of lacquer and its use in a European context, Japanese Export Lacquer, Impey, O., Jörg, Christiaan J. A. & Viallé, Cynthia (2005).

Japanese export lacquer panel – Victoria and Albert Museum › content › articles › japanese-export-lacquer

Jan 1, 2019: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann published Japanese Export Lacquer and Global Art History: An Art of Mediation in’… researchgate › publication › 329484725_Japanese… etc.