English Chinoiserie Highboy Chest of Drawers

"French Victorian (19th Century) Chinoiserie 6 drawer chest/dresser featuring elaborately painted genre scenes and landscapes painted in gold, black, and green under a high-sheen lac...

English Regency style (19th Cent) Chinoiserie lacquered and decorated slant top floor trunk (hamper) with pearl inlaid trim.

A sophisticated Queen Anne-period chinoiserie japanned chest raised on elegant cabriole legs with 'pony foot' carved detailing. This early-18th century chest on stand demonstrates the charming and highly fashionable English domestic interpretation of oriental scenes of pagodas, rockwork, trees, ornamental bridges, mythical birds, and figures dressed in the oriental manner, holding parasols and cavorting in gardens. All in remarkable condition having survived some three hundred years. Chests on cabriole supports of this form were also very much in fashion in the American colonies during this early Queen Anne-period (1702-1714). Sometimes erroneously referred to as ‘'lacquer''. The fashion icon Coco Chanel furnished her exquisite Paris apartments largely in the European chinoiserie taste. References: V & A Museum, London - The development of English black japanning 1620-1820. Literature and further reading: John Stalker and George Parker...

Spectacular and seldom seen Chinoiserie Highboy from a small Collection Baker which was featured in this extraordinary Yellow Base with hand painted scenes. Condition Disclosure: P...