Two lacquer low tables, China, Qing Dynasty

one with a Cormonadel lacquer square top, the other one with a circular top on a later pediment ; (wear and losses on both tops)

The tops have been associated to a later base. The table visible on the left in the catalogue illustration. The top has losses and accidents. There is wear to the gilding. There are cracks and accidents on the curved border. The base has losses of wood, accidents and chips. The tablevisible on the right in the catalogue illustration. There are accidents and important losses to the top, with associated cracks; one bigger extending vertically in the middle of the top.
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