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Anglo-Chinese export lacquer and gilt Davenport desk
China late 19th C. Wood, ebonised and gilt, as well as black-ground lacquer. Four ball feet, recessed base plate, four drawers on either side behind openwork door panels, above a fall front desk with felt inlay and three-drawer interior, on the right a drawer that can be folded out and down on a hinge as an utensil holder for inkpot and quill, above a removable gallery in openwork decoration. All sides and interior panels of the writing flap painted with floral tendrils and multi-figure palace depictions. Two original locks.
H 92, W 68, D 59 cm.

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