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33/1975 Toilet-cum-writing table England 1710-20 Red-lacquered and gilt wood. H:166, W:58, D:36 When the Europeans seriously established trading rela­ tionships withJapan and China during the 17th century they were most impressed by the lacquerwork of both these countries. They began to import lacquer articles; they incorporated them into English furniture; they commissioned lacquerwork furniture on English lines in the Far East; and finally they made intensive efforts to imitate Japanese and Chinese lacquers as convincingly as possible. The David Collection has examples of all types, but the toilet-table illustrated here, complete with looking- glass, writing-fap and oddment drawer, belongs to the last-named group. Instructions were published in Eng­ land as to how the lacquer technique could be imitated. It was called “japanning”, and although the form of this item is purely English, the very refined lacquerwork has clearly been inspired by Chinese art.

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