Nineteenth Century Chinese Export Lacquer Cabinet

A beautiful early Nineteenth Century Chinese Export lacquer cabinet; the doors decorated with mythical Chinese landscapes and retaining the original engraved brass escutcheon open to reveal a fully fitted interior of eighteen graduated drawers which are decorated with mythical Chinese landscapes and retain their original fire gilded handles; the interior of the doors are decorated with bamboo leaves. Raised on the original stand which is decorated with vine leaves and flowers. 

The lacquer on this cabinet is beautifully untouched and the quality of the cabinet is shown with the interiors of the drawers being decorated with the maki-e technique in which powdered gold dust is sprinkled into wet lacquer. 

Provenance:

Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.

Pictured in the sale catalogue dated 25-28 September, 1916. Lot 883

Walsingham Abbey was built on the ruins of a medieval priory and extended by John Haverfield for Rev. Henry Lee-Warner between 1806-16 and remained in the Lee-Warner family until its sale at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.