Antique Set 3 Chinese Export Gilded Lacquer Dragon Feet Nest of Tables 1890 Paintings Height 25"

Height 25"

Molly Cliff Hilts is an artist whose work is part of an emerging form that fuses painting

The painting is housed in the original frame with sgraffito decoration

The County of Los Angeles hired him in 1955 as a cartographer and architectural draftsman

inside frame measure 34

Antique Set 3 Chinese Export Gilded Lacquer Dragon Feet Nest of Tables 1890 Paintings Height 25"A fine set of three japanned & gilt Chinese export tables, circa 1890. The table are japanned in black lacquer and hand decorated with gilt designs. The lead table is painted with a cental cartouche with a dragon and pheonix, surrounded with butterflies and foral designs, the second table with similar floral decoration with a cat and the last table with a bird. The table with 'lyre' shaped ends also with floral gilded decoration, each table