With Chinese varnished top and two bag-shaped Chinese vessels of bronze, surrounded by a frame of rocailles on four feet of gold-plated French bronze. The Chinese paintings at the top showing scenery with four of the "eight immortals", coloured on brown ground (Koromandel varnish). Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49; Math. Lempertz'sche Kunstversteigerung: Eine bekannte Süddeutsche Privatsammlung and anderer Privatbesitz, Katalog Nr. 395.
Provenance
Collection Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin, Auction at 11/12th March 1938 by Math. Lempertz, Cologne. CatalogueNo: 25 (Auktionshaus Hugo Helbing, 1936); 253 (Math. Lempertz, 1938)
