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PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION
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AN IMPORTANT LARGE CHINESE HUANGHUALI TWO- Published
SECTION BUREAU BOOKCASE Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings,
Circa 1750 Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities, Antique Collector’s Club, Suffolk,
Supported on scroll bracket feet, the lower section in the form of a UK, 1991, p. 227, Color Plate 79
chest of drawers with hinged fall-front with pull-out supports and
enclosing a fitted interior with various sized drawers, one inked with 出處：
Chinese number characters, one horizontal shelf and eight pigeon- 康州利奇菲爾得 Thomas McBride，1988 年十月
holes with Chinese-form apron details, all above four graduated large 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1988 年至今
drawers each with two highly-decorative Chinese paktong (baitong)
handle plates with swan-neck handles, also mirrored in the paktong 出版記錄：
carrying handles to the sides, the upper section with two later Carl L. Crossman, 《中國貿易與裝飾藝術：繪畫、傢俱、異國珍奇》
mirrored doors with rocaille paktong key-plates at the center and ，骨董藏家俱樂部，英國薩福克郡，1991 年，第 227 頁，彩版 79
further paktong carrying handles to the side, opening to reveal two
drawers and three shelves, all below a simple cornice. In Carl L. Crossman, op. cit., p. 227, col. pl. 79, the bureau is
72 1/2in (184.2cm) high; 42 3/4in (108.6cm) wide; 22 1/8in (57cm) illustrated with Chinese and Indian silver of the early 19th century
deep from the Milhender Collection. The Indian silver now forms part of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts silver collection.
$30,000 - 40,000
See a pair of huanghauli and padouk wood bureau cabinets, with
十八世紀 黃花梨雙層寫字櫃暨白銅原配件 solid-timber upper cupboard doors rather than the mirrors of ours
sold at Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, 21 October 2020,
lot January 2020, lot 169.
Provenance
Thomas McBride, Litchfield, CT, October 1988
The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts,
1988-present

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