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A Japanese Gilt-Metal Mounted Black and Gold Lacquer Coffer on a George II Giltwood Stand, the Coffer 17th Century, the Stand Circa 1730
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A Japanese Gilt-Metal Mounted Black and Gold Lacquer Coffer on a George II Giltwood Stand, the Coffer 17th Century, the Stand Circa 1730
拍品描述：
the hinged lid covering an interior decorated innashijilacquer
height 38 3/4 in.; width 61 in.; depth 28 in.
98.5 cm; 155 cm; 71 cm
出处
The collection of Mary Anna MartennéeSturt (1929–2010), Crichel House, Dorset;
Christie's London, 8 July 2010, lot 77;
Christe’s New York, 14 June 2017, lot 213.
图录说明
Europeans were enchanted by the lacquer of East Asia, with a lustrous and hard-wearing sheen that was created using a complex process unknown to Western craftsmen. This interest in lacquer took various forms and lasted long enough that it also evolved alongside broader fashions in furniture and decoration. This chest is an excellent example of the integration of lacquer chests and cabinets into European interiors, which was typical of the late seventeenth and first few decades of the eighteenth century. Hans Huth observes that coffers of this form were rarely imitated by European lacquer workshops because the Japanese originals were in readier supply, noting they were often 'used as packing cases for other goods' imported from Japan and so were efficient uses of cargo space.1While cabinets with drawers housed smaller household items and collector’s pieces, it is reasonable to assume that chests were used for clothing and textiles, with Madame de Pompadour owning a 'large chest for clothes, entirely in lacquer'.2While some long, low chests would rest on the floor, it was customary to raise a cabinet or chest on a stand created in Europe to current fashions; in inventories of the period these stands are often referred to as “frames”.3
Other important examples of lacquer chests of this type are documented, often with their original stands. The most celebrated are a group known as the Mazarin cabinets: these were created with a superb richness and attention to detail by the Kōami workshop around 1640, and examples can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (412:1, 2-1882) and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (AK-RAK-2013-3-1). Neither of these has an original stand, but examples of similar lacquer chests at Belton House, Lincolnshire (NT 434832) and formerly at Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire4both retain splendid giltwood stands from the same period as the present lot. Another notable chest was formerly at Chatsworth, Derbyshire and is supported by an ebonised George II stand.5Other examples of important Japanese lacquer chests on European stands have been recorded at Chevening Castle in Kent, Vaux-le-Vicomte château outside Paris,Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm and the hôtel d’Ursel in Brussels.6
1H. Huth,Lacquer of the West,Chicago 1971, p.41.
2'grand coffre pour les habits, le tout de laque'. Quoted in S. Castelluccio,Le goût pour les laques d’Orient,Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau 2019, p.121.
3P. Macquoid and R. Edwards,The Dictionary of English Furniture,Woodbridge 1954, vol. III, p.145.
4SoldChristie’s New York,The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland,19 October 2023, lot 238.
5Sold Christie's London, 23 June 1983, lot 63 and later offered Christie’s London,Le Goût Steinitz, III,6 December 2007, lot 394.
6Chevening: Macquoid and Edwards,op. cit.,vol. I, 23, fig.44.
Vaux-le-Vicomte: illustrated in the catalogue note for the chest offered at Christie’s London,Le Goût Steinitz, III,6 December 2007, lot 394.
Drottningholm: O. Impey and C. Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580-1850 , Amsterdam 2005, pg. 321, fig.623.
D’Ursel: soldChristie’s London,Kenneth Neame,13 June 2018, lot 16
height 38 3/4 in.; width 61 in.; depth 28 in.
98.5 cm; 155 cm; 71 cm
出处
The collection of Mary Anna MartennéeSturt (1929–2010), Crichel House, Dorset;
Christie's London, 8 July 2010, lot 77;
Christe’s New York, 14 June 2017, lot 213.
图录说明
Europeans were enchanted by the lacquer of East Asia, with a lustrous and hard-wearing sheen that was created using a complex process unknown to Western craftsmen. This interest in lacquer took various forms and lasted long enough that it also evolved alongside broader fashions in furniture and decoration. This chest is an excellent example of the integration of lacquer chests and cabinets into European interiors, which was typical of the late seventeenth and first few decades of the eighteenth century. Hans Huth observes that coffers of this form were rarely imitated by European lacquer workshops because the Japanese originals were in readier supply, noting they were often 'used as packing cases for other goods' imported from Japan and so were efficient uses of cargo space.1While cabinets with drawers housed smaller household items and collector’s pieces, it is reasonable to assume that chests were used for clothing and textiles, with Madame de Pompadour owning a 'large chest for clothes, entirely in lacquer'.2While some long, low chests would rest on the floor, it was customary to raise a cabinet or chest on a stand created in Europe to current fashions; in inventories of the period these stands are often referred to as “frames”.3
Other important examples of lacquer chests of this type are documented, often with their original stands. The most celebrated are a group known as the Mazarin cabinets: these were created with a superb richness and attention to detail by the Kōami workshop around 1640, and examples can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (412:1, 2-1882) and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (AK-RAK-2013-3-1). Neither of these has an original stand, but examples of similar lacquer chests at Belton House, Lincolnshire (NT 434832) and formerly at Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire4both retain splendid giltwood stands from the same period as the present lot. Another notable chest was formerly at Chatsworth, Derbyshire and is supported by an ebonised George II stand.5Other examples of important Japanese lacquer chests on European stands have been recorded at Chevening Castle in Kent, Vaux-le-Vicomte château outside Paris,Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm and the hôtel d’Ursel in Brussels.6
1H. Huth,Lacquer of the West,Chicago 1971, p.41.
2'grand coffre pour les habits, le tout de laque'. Quoted in S. Castelluccio,Le goût pour les laques d’Orient,Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau 2019, p.121.
3P. Macquoid and R. Edwards,The Dictionary of English Furniture,Woodbridge 1954, vol. III, p.145.
4SoldChristie’s New York,The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland,19 October 2023, lot 238.
5Sold Christie's London, 23 June 1983, lot 63 and later offered Christie’s London,Le Goût Steinitz, III,6 December 2007, lot 394.
6Chevening: Macquoid and Edwards,op. cit.,vol. I, 23, fig.44.
Vaux-le-Vicomte: illustrated in the catalogue note for the chest offered at Christie’s London,Le Goût Steinitz, III,6 December 2007, lot 394.
Drottningholm: O. Impey and C. Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580-1850 , Amsterdam 2005, pg. 321, fig.623.
D’Ursel: soldChristie’s London,Kenneth Neame,13 June 2018, lot 16