Work box
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825 - circa 1849
Materials
Lacquer, japanned wood, parcel-gilding, brass, giltwood
Measurements
85 x 47.5 x 42.5 cm
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206631
Summary
A lacquer, giltwood and parcel-gilt work table on pedestal stand, Chinese Export, second quarter of the 19th century. The box of octagonal form and with concave moulded edge. Decorated to the interior and exterior with Chinoiserie scenes, figures and landscapes, and with a small gilt brass handle to either end. The stand topped by an octagonal tray top, decorated with gilt butterflies and insects, sunken to accommodate the box, and with moulded edge. The top swiveling and tilting on a bird-cage mechanism and on a turned and ring-turned stem on a concave-sided triform platform and three giltwood paw-carved feet. Decorated throughout with lacquer and japanning, and highlighted with red and gilt.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 as in Drawing Room No. 1 (p. 4). Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.