An Early 20thC Chinoiserie Lacquer Decorated & Painted Kneehole Desk c.1900-10 sub-Mirrors & Lighting and Barnum & Bailey

and Barnum & Bailey

though it has seen better days

25” w / 6

the sitter shown as a studious man of thought

Notts Square

An Early 20thC Chinoiserie Lacquer Decorated & Painted Kneehole Desk c.1900-10 sub-Mirrors & Lighting and Barnum & BaileyOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: The Estate of Mrs Valerie Lilleywhite Date: c. 1900 10 Height: 29. 25 Width: 49 Depth: 22 (all at top) The very pretty Chinoiserie lacquered and gold painted desk, decorated all over in low relief with typical chinoiserie scenes, each panel being black bordered, with three drawers above two pedestal doors to each flank, the whole raised on black painted bun turned feet, surviving from the zeniths of the