-40%
EARLY 20TH C CHINOISERIE RED LACQUERED, HAND PAINTED CHIPPENDALE TILT-TOP TABLE
$ 669.24
- Description
- Size Guide
Description
EARLY 20TH CENTURYCHINOISERIE
ANTIQUE RED LACQUERED, HAND PAINTED
AME
RI
CAN
CHIPPENDALE STYLE
TILT-TOP
OCCASIONAL TABLE,
with
HAND PAINTED TABLE TOP
CHINESE
LANDSCAPE
of
FEMALE
FIGURE,
TREES,
MOUNTAINS
&
DWELLING
[Recently found in a North Shore, MA fine estate]
(Circa 1900-1920)
Early 20th century
Chinoiserie
hand painted
Ame
ri
can
furniture & decorative accessories
DIMENSIONS:
Down Position:
30" in Height (when tabletop is down)
Up Position:
44" in overall Height (when top is flipped up)
26" Width/Diameter x 26" Base Width
Weight: 13 lbs. 8 oz
DESCRIPTION:
In quite well-preserved overall condition, with perhaps only a single, slight scuff to the red lacquer and hand painted
Chinese figurative landscape
realized on the tabletop surface. This early turn-of-the-century,
circa 1900-1920
Chinese Export
Ame
ri
can
Chippendale style
tilt-top occasional table, was lacquered and antiqued with several layers of semi-transparent glaze over enamel paint, with a wonderfully realized figurative landscape illustrated on its large, round table top. This
18th century
mahogany antique
Chippendale style
furniture has padded feet that support hand carved tripod legs that meet, connected and fastened together with heavy, hand carved dovetails at a reeded, columnar, ascending central pedestal, that's hinged to a wooden doweled mahogany wood block at the top, allowing the table top to lay flat or to rest in an upright position. It has early, decorative brass hardware that still open and close freely and once the table top is down, it clasps back together, holding the table top in place. Although this form of early
Ame
ri
can
furniture, inspired by an earlier English form, fell out of favor in the 19th century, it enjoyed a robust revival of sorts, with the return to style and very much in fashion and suddenly en vogue
'Chinoiserie,'
Chinese
decorated antique wooden furniture and decorative accessories. Absolutely beautiful and simply lovely. It's sure not to quit on you. It won't disappoint. Why would it? Estate fresh and nearly as it was originally constituted. Add a little of the exotic and foreign travel to your otherwise cookie-cutter, drab, white bread existence. Your friends will think you just returned from an exotic
Far-East
safari into the great unknown.
CONDITION:
Good to Very Good overall antique condition.
(*Please scroll down the page to view enlarged photos below. Thank you.)