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Description:
Ref: 896TC   http://hygra.com/box/896TC 
Antique export Lacquer box with two colours of gold depicting scenes of Oriental life.  The box stands on gilded carved feet.  The box is labeled both inside and to the base  "Henri Defossez, Rue Royalle 12 Lille".  Export lacquer boxes were sometimes used as luxury chocolate boxes and for this purpose would have been supplied without pewter liners. This box is similar in form to: Hygra: Antique Chinese Export Lacquer Tea Chest with lift out pewter canisters and gold decoration Circa 1840. They are almost a pair.

Origin: Canton, China;  Circa: 1840; Materials: Gold decorated lacquer on wood. 

Size: 23 cm wide by 16.5 cm by 12,5 cm:   9.1 inches wide by  6.5 inches by 4.9  inches.

Condition: good overall; working lock and key; see images. As each person has different criteria and antiques by their very nature have wear  please enlarge the images and ask for extra information as needed. 

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