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A HUANGHUALI SLOPING-STILE CUPBOARD, YUANJIAOGUI Grace Wu Bruce, purchased 17th July 1997.
Late 16th/17th century
The floating panel top set into a mitre, mortise-and- tenon frame For similar cupboards found in museum collections see Robert D.
with rounded edge and supported by four stiles double tenoned into Jacobsen with Nick Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the
the frame, rounded on the exterior and squared on the interior and Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, 1999, no. 51 and 52;
housing well-figured single panel doors with mitred frame construction and Michel Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, Tokyo, New York and San
and double-beaded frame centered on a removable stile, the doors Francisco, 1979, no.93.
opening to reveal two removable shelves resting on transverse
stretchers of the side panels, the plain aprons tongue-and-grooved
and butted to the lower beaded-edge horizontal stretchers, with
baitong lock plates and shaped door pulls.
43 4/8 x 29 1/8 x 16 1/8in (111.2 x 74 x 41cm)
US$40,000 - 60,000
晚明世紀 黃花梨圓角櫃
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