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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品
Lots 183 - 185

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A RARE HUANGHUALI SEDAN CHAIR BOX AND COVER, The present lot forms part of a distinguished collection of classical
JIAOXIANG Chinese furniture devotedly collected and lived with over the past three
16th/17th century decades. The owner had the privilege of learning from the pre-eminent
Of stepped T-shaped construction, with well-figured rectangular scholar of classical Chinese furniture, Wang Shixiang, as well as from
top joined to the box with hinges, opening to reveal two small the well-known dealer in classical Chinese furniture, Grace Wu Bruce.
compartments on each side, the box fitted with metal ruyi-shaped
corner brackets, a circular lock plate, and cloud-form hasp. This portable box was designed to fit between the rails of an official’s
71cm (28in) wide x 14.5cm (5 3/4in) high x 18cm (7in) deep. (2). sedan chair, and to be easily removed and taken indoors. This
standard form accommodated paper and scrolls in the central section
£15,000 - 20,000 with brushes and seals being placed in the projecting ends. For a
CNY120,000 - 160,000 discussion about sedan chair document boxes see Grace Wu Bruce,
‘Small Portable Treasures’, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture
Society, Autumn, 1993, pp.57-59. See also a similar huanghuali sedan
十六/十七世紀 黃花梨轎箱 chair box in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated in Classical
Chinese Furniture, Chicago, 1999, pp.200-201, no.74. Compare also
Provenance: Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong a similar zitan sedan chair box and cover, Ming dynasty, illustrated by
A British private collection, acquired directly from the above Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early
Qing Dynasties, London, vol.II, 1990, p.173, E23.
來源：香港嘉木堂
英國私人收藏 A similar huanghuali sedan chair box, jiaoxiang, 17th/18th century,
was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 3117; and another
similar huanghuali sedan chair box, 17th/18th century, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 13 September 2019.

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