George II Lacquer Cabinet on Chest

Of perfectly modest form, with a domed lid decorated with dignitaries on their horses, accompanying hounds, long tailed exotic pheasants, butterflies, all set within a landscape with...

Handsomely drawn and raised on ball and claw feet, the four long drawers presenting a dry and untouched mahogany surface; the top fringed with foliate carving. With simple, original ...

A Magnificent George II Carved Mahogany Breakfront Library Cabinet of Architectural Form The pedimented dentil cornice above four panel doors, a waisted Vitruvian scroll fluted frie...

A Superb George II Carved Walnut and Feather Banded Bureau Bookcase, attributed to Giles Grendey. The scroll cornice above a pair of shaped mirror doors enclosing shelves and pigeon...

A beautifully decorated Queen Anne period lacquer cabinet on stand. Having pierced, fretted brass hinges and lock plates. Chinoiserie scenes to the doors, opening to reveal ten fitte...

With a pair of doors with elaborate brass hinges and overall Asian inspired decoration opening to an interior of drawers with brass bail handles. The slightly later base with Asian i...

Rectangular cabinet has nine drawers inside. Hinges, corner mounts and lock plates in gilt brass. Decorated with river landscapes, insects, birds and animals in pairs. The stand is i...

England, circa 1760. A fine mid-eighteenth century Japanned lacquer cabinet, with two doors revealing an interior fitted with eleven drawers with ring handles, all decorated with naturalistic scenes including fishermen and rural life. Retaining the original mid-eighteenth century stand, also with comparable chinoiserie decoration and X form stretcher with central pierced quatrefoil. Height 161.00 centimetres. Width 98.00 centimetres. Depth 51.00 centimetres. The art of 18th-century Japanning was a European practise that sought to imitate Japanese lacquerware and became a method of emulating the aesthetics of East Asia within the home. The term originates from the late 17th century as the opening of trade routes in the East triggered an interest in Chinese and Japanese fashions in Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. It’s popularity reflected this era of imperial ambition when the West was fascinated by the exoticism of the East and saw the rise of an orientalist attitude. During this time, Europe’s demand for lacquerware began to grow and The East India Company's importation of lacquered objects and screens created a desire for larger, more practical items with similar decorative finishes. To replicate the appearance of oriental lacquerwork, European cabinet-makers turned to John Stalker and George Parker's 1688 ‘A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing: Being a Compleat Discovery of Those Arts’. This book contained formulas for creating and applying lacquers as well as various chinoiserie illustrations for readers to copy and modify, having made a concerted effort to reference designs on Chinese porcelain and textiles. European japanning differed from traditional East Asian lacquer work which used sap from the Toxicodendron vernicifluum tree (also known as the Chinese lacquer tree...