A George III Chinese and Japanese lacquer-mounted tulipwood and satinwood fall-front secretaire cabinet

The green rectangular marble top above a fall-front mounted with a Chinese black lacquer panel decorated with a house on a hill and large chrysanthemum tree opening to an arrangment of Japanese lacquer drawers before a leather-lined writing surface, the lower section fitted with a pair of cupboard doors fitted with Japanese lacquer panels and opening to Japanese black and gilt lacquer drawers, the whole raised on part-ebonized giltwood leaf-carved tapering legs on block feet. Comprising Chinese and Japanese lacquer panels from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Treavor Antiques, London, 1973
Mallett, London

Fanfare for Europe, The British Art Market 1973, Sotheby's Publications, London, 1973, p. 177

Good condition; the marble top later; right side panel with minor lifting to lacquer of top frieze; side panels with some minor old age cracks with some restorations; overall with some small nicks and chips to extremities; lacquer appears to be stable and in good condition.
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