The 60th birthday is apocryphal but became a popular subject in Chinese painting and many allusions can be found to it in Chinese painting through the years
A very fine English walnut dressing table having burl veneered and banded lift up top with a fitted interior
popularized by William Kent whose work at Houghton Hall in Norfolk and Chiswick House in London for Robert Walpole helped to establish the Palladian style
Circa 1800
which you will find in the known portfolio of this maker’s work
Chinese Watercolor Harbor Scenes looking glass The 60th birthday is apocryphalA pair of mid 19th century Chinese watercolors, on plinth paper, one labeled "Macao Harbour",depicting the Whampoa anchorage, the other depicting the entrance to the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta with ships from the U. S., Britain, the Netherlands and the Orient. Height: 5 3 4", Width: 9"; Height: 5", Width: 7 3 4"