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AN ELMWOOD SQUARE-CORNER TAPERING CABINET, The present cabinet is based on a well-known prototype of the late
FANGJIAOGUI Ming dynasty, exhibiting highly-refined craftsmanship, notable for
18th century the timeless elegance, perfect proportions and simplicity. Furniture
With an elegantly rounded protruding top with ‘ice-plate’ edge set on was often selected from books of drawings at the cabinetmaker’s
subtly splayed oval corner posts housing well-figured single panelled workshop and made to the proportions required. This would have led
doors opening from the removable central stile to reveal the interior to certain unique personal preferences in stylistic choices. For a Ming
fitted with two shelves and two drawers, with a metal lock plate and dynasty prototype, see a related pair of tapered huanghuali cabinets,
pulls, all above a plain narrow apron with rounded apron spandrels. early to mid-16th century, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
167cm (65 6/8in) high x 92cm (36 2/8in) wide x 50cm (19 6/8in) deep. City, illustrated by S.Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical
Furniture, Los Angeles, 2001, p.251, fig.15.12
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY31,000 - 47,000 A related huanghuali square-corner tapering cabinet, 18th century, was
sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2013, lot 930.
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