286, together with a further comparable example. Retains its original handles and a label of Town and Emanuel, who retailed it in 1830's (see below).Ī very rare and beautiful piece, unusually having an exquisitely reverse-painted mirror plate.Ĭhristie's, New York, 22 April 1989, lot 17.Ĭhristopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, p.453.Ī very similar example from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated in Carl Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, 1991, p. He located the real estate agent.Ī rare and decorative Chinese export dressing mirror, in black lacquer, exquisitely gilt-decorated throughout, with its original mercury plate, reverse-painted with exotic birds. The following day after lunching at the McDonalds in Lincoln Park, John wandered the neighborhood a came upon a shabby, falling-down old Victorian house. Following several noise complaints from the neighbors, John had a dream that he was living in a ramshackle house but with plenty of room to work and no attached neighbors. At the time, John’s artwork consisted of pounding copper sheets into tables which was a noisy endeavor to say the least. The apartment was tiny, as hotel rooms tend to be, and clad with paper-thin walls allowing sound to pass from one apartment to the other. In the early Nineties, John Seubert was living in a former hotel in a high-rise building on St. The piece is mounted to a granite stand so it can be displayed from either side. Each side and opened door is a different treasure to discover. This piece has multiple paintings and collages. Self-taught artist John Seubert, AKA John Dolly, uses objects he uncovers as he rehabs older homes in Chicago.
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