A Chinese Export and European painted Japanned, lacquered and gilt-decorated cabinet-on-stand late 18th century

the top decorated with flowers, above two doors with pastoral scenes and lovers in a landscape, the interior of the doors decorated with chinoiserie scenes of figures, landscapes, junks and pagodas, and a gilt-decorated architectural interior, with pierced slides with fretwork, above twelve drawers some decorated with chinoiserie figures, landscapes, pagodas and animals, one drawer with the stencilled inventory number in black ink 6170, he sides with gilt flowers, the stand with a damaged fret-work frieze, on square tapering legs, terminating in block feet

Edmund Larken, China Merchant, Shanghai (1766-1831);
Eliza Larken, his daughter, who married William, 6th Lord Monson in 1828;
Thence by decent. 

In need of some attention. Tired looking with scuffs , marks, chips and minor losses to the decoration which is worn on the top and the sides and doors have craquelure commensurate with age. It may benefit from a clean which may reveal more of the external decoration. The internal decoration is in better shape but the gilding is refreshed and the ogee shaped pierced fretwork looks later compared to the rest. The pierced balustrades look later. The sides look redecorated with some later ebonised mouldings. On the base, a large section of the pierced fret is damaged.
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