A JAPANESE EXPORT BRASS-MOUNTED, PORCELAIN-INSET AND BLACK AND GILT LACQUER CENTER TABLE
MID-19TH CENTURY
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Price Realised USD 50,400
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USD 12,000 - USD 18,000
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Closed: 18 Jun 2025
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A JAPANESE EXPORT BRASS-MOUNTED, PORCELAIN-INSET AND BLACK AND GILT LACQUER CENTER TABLE
This table may have been made for export to the Isle of Deshima in the Bay of Nagaski. Deshima, also known as Dejima, was a man-made island constructed in Nagasaki harbor by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) in the mid-1630s. It was the only place in Japan where Westerners, first the Portuguese and then the Dutch, were allowed to reside from the 1630s to 1856 under the Japanese edict of sakoku, or 'closing of the country'. For further nineteenth-century Nagasaki export center tables, see the two examples from the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 22 October 2022, lot 434 and 20 October 2023, lot 541; and an example decorated with a large vase, sold Christie's, London. 6 April 2000, lot 254. Examples similarly mounted with small porcelain plaques and metalwork include a low table sold Rooms as Portraits: Michael S. Smith, A Tale of Two Cities at Christie's, New York, 26 September 2018, lot 209; a shodana bookcase sold Christie's, London, 3 April 2012, lot 551; and two cabinets sold Christie's, London, 13 September 2005, lot 276 and 24 January 2002, lot 150.
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Structurally sound and ready to use. With scattered age and construction cracks. Overall with general marks, nicks, surface scratches, tiny losses and repairs consistent with age and use. The lacquer with scattered age cracks, lifting, and minor areas of losses and signs of infill and restorations, mainly to edges throughout; stabilized with a later varnish but slightly uneven. The porcelain with scattered breaks, minor losses and restorations, primarily to the plaques at the rim and feet. The gilding with the expected rubbing. The brass mounts with some minor surface scratches, casting flaws, verdigris and rubbing, as to be expected. Overall attractive, ready to place.
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MID-19TH CENTURYA JAPANESE EXPORT BRASS-MOUNTED, PORCELAIN-INSET AND BLACK AND GILT LACQUER CENTER TABLEEstimate: USD 12,000 - 18,000
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