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A HUANGHUALI SLOPING-STILE CUPBOARD, YUANJIAOGUI Grace Wu Bruce, purchased 28 May, 1996.
17th/18th century
The floating panel top set into a mitre, mortise-and-tenon, tongue For similar cupboards found in museum collections see Robert D.
and groove frame with rounded corners showing exposed tenons Jacobsen with Nick Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the
on the short sides and joined to four tapered stiles, double tenoned Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, 1999, no. 51 and 52; Michel
into the top, rounded on the exterior edges and square in the interior Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture,, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco,
supporting a pair of well-figured single panel doors set into double 1979, no. 93.
beaded-edge frames centered on a removable stile, the doors opening
to reveal two removable shelves set on front stretchers and transverse This cabinet as well as lot belongs to a very successful group of
braces of the single paneled sides, all over a beaded edge lower designs popular in Chinese furniture employed throughout the Ming
stretcher and a plain apron, tongue-and-grooved and butt-jointed to and Qing periods. For comparable examples sold at auction see
the frame and sides, the doors and removable central stile fitted with Christie’s Hong Kong, Sale 3435, lot 2824 from the Feng Wen Tang
curved baitong plates designed with three pierced lock bosses and Collection, 3 June 2015; and Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Sale HK0640, lot
squared pulls. 104, 8 April 2016. For an example with burlwood panels see Beijing
45 x 30 5/8 x 16 5/8 in (114.3 x 77.8 x 42.1cm) Guardian,lot 5006, 22 November 2014.

US$40,000 - 60,000

十七或十八世紀 黃花梨圓角櫃

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