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Early Antique Chinese Export Chest on Chest #1126189

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Furniture Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:0.00 USD
Early Antique Chinese Export Chest on Chest #1126189
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Here is a very exciting and quite rare furniture item! It is a Chinese Export Chest on Chest. It is very thrilling to find Chinese export furniture these days. This chest on chest was made in the 1860?s and it is in its original as found condition ? and the condition is very good. It has the original hard brass hardware that is heavily chased in a floral design. The overall construction is mortise and tenon along with dovetail construction. The bracket base is bold and shapely as you can see and it is original. The wood is camphor or Zelcova ? I?m not 100% sure. Has a slight smell of camphor ? for any of you who are familiar with Chinese export furniture you know that camphor smell - not like the moth balls or camphor that we typically use today but there is a whole absolutely wonderful small of old camphor wood which is just unmistakable. The surface is fairly dry. The grain of the wood, as I hope comes through in the pictures, is very exciting, very nice. A few of the molded pieces here and there have been chipped off I guess from age ? they are hard to notice. It is expected and quite acceptable. It is a diminutive piece ? a very small size for a chest on chest. It is extremely handsome, elegant and sophisticated ? very well done. I guess I could talk about this chest for ever and ever it is so incredible ? the more you look at it the more you see. It measures 23 3/8? at deepest x 38? at widest x 54? at highest.
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<tr><td>Condition:very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1860's</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Early Antique Chinese Export Chest on Chest</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Northport Maine 04849</td></tr>
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