Talking materiality » Commode decorated with Japanese lacquer, japanning, gilt brass mounts and a Portoro Macchie Larga marble top, by Bernad Vanrisamburgh II, early 1760s, in the Victorian & Albert Museum, London.

Commode decorated with Japanese lacquer, japanning, gilt brass mounts and a Portoro Macchie Larga marble top, by Bernad Vanrisamburgh II, early 1760s, in the Victorian & Albert Museum, London.

Commode decorated with Japanese lacquer, japanning, gilt brass mounts and a Portoro Macchie Larga marble top, by Bernad Vanrisamburgh II, early 1760s, in the Victorian & Albert Museum, London.

Corner cupboard painted with chinoiserie designs in green on white, made by Thomas Chippendale for the actor David Garrick, 1768-1778, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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