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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED COROMANDEL, EBONY AND EBONIZED MEUBLE D'APPUI OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY Each with an eared cippolino verde marble top above a freize drawer applied with ribbon-tied scrolling vine above four gilt-embossed red lacquer-fronted freize drawers, flanked by brass-inlaid pilasters on toupie feet 47 ? in. (121 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
Coromandel is the prized Chinese technique of carving into layers of lacquer over a softwood core and then painting in the carved details. Also referred to as 'bantam work', coromandel is actually a Western misnomer for the lacquered screens on which the ancient techniques were applied which were shipped from Southern China via the Indian Coromandel coast by the British East India Company. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, once the screens arrived in Europe, they were often dismantled and used in various decorative schemes, as seen on the drawers of the present lot.