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Unique , Decorated Chinese Wallpaper Cabinet on Original English Painted Stand .The paper being typical of the Chinese Wallpaper Designs decorated in the Canton Area in the Late 18th Century . The Paper Predominately made for the European Market sometimes is used for the covering of small items such as Tea Caddies and Larger Coffers etc . Extremely rare to find larger articles . It was common for cabinets and other other trunks to be shipped abroad without bases and for same to be constructed to English taste and often to personal design .

Provenance
Private Collection UK

Literature: Unknown to our company during sixty years of fine art dealing to have found original furniture covered in Chinese Paper Wall - whilst having seen boxes and caddies .

Condition: "Good country house state " to front and interior , the sides still being original have undulations to be expected being laid upon a wooden carcass and the both ( paper - wood ) contracting and shrinking at their own different pace .

Ref No: 5313

POA