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Massive China Trade Dressing Set browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Silver: Asia Trade: Pre 1900: item # 1027456
AVERY ART & ANTIQUES 14380 Shoreline Highway Valley Ford, CA 94972-0419 707-876-3392 Guest Book $6200 |
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| Made for export around 1870, this 11-piece dressing set, in its original lacquer fitted case, is of extraordinary purity (approximately 950/1000) and weight, the powder box alone weighing in at about 11 ounces. Featuring finely martèle surfaces within plain borders, the decoration is elegantly reserved. Each of the brushes – two hair brushes, a clothes brush and a hat brush – retains its original silk-brocade cartonnage bandeau, and packing papers bear the advertising of the maker, Hung Chong and Company, Shanghai. There are also a hand mirror, a silver-mounted ivory comb, glove stretchers, a button hook, a shoe horn, a powder box with vermeil interior and a velvet-lined jewel box. The condition is superb, almost if the set has never been used. | ||||||||||||||
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