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Mar 5, 2025
China Trade, Canton, ca 1800-10. China Trade hardwood bow-front tambour dressing stand. The stand is fitted with a hinged box lid in two parts, which when opened, reveal a top panel with circular cut-outs for a wash basin and bottles. The bow-front contains a sliding tambour door above two drawers. With original brass fittings including side handles. (lacking interior pull-up shaving glass).
H 35 in. W 19 in. D 21 in.
Provenance: N. David (Nino) Scotti, China Trade Scholar, Providence, Rhode Island.A closely related dressing stand was brought to Rhode Island by Edward Dexter in 1805, now in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, illustrated in Carl Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, 1991, p. 238, no.126.
Condition: A few minor age cracks and imperfections.
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03/2024
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