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出處： It seems highly likely that a copy of the Chippendale book, or a
紐約 Claverack, Michael and Jane Dunn Antiques, 1984 年 12 月 24 日 drawing based on it, was sent to Guangzhou as a template. The
麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1984 年至今 present dressing table is conceived in the fashionable ‘antique’
manner of the early George III period and has hallmarks reminiscent
出版記錄： of the celebrated St. Martin’s Lane cabinetmaker, Thomas
Carl L. Crossman, 《中國貿易與裝飾藝術：繪畫、傢俱、異國珍奇》 Chippendale. It employs a finely figured wood, hauli in this instance,
，骨董藏家俱樂部，英國薩福克郡，1991 年，第 230 頁，彩版 82 and the simple details are treated with an elegant restraint.
The Magazine Antiques 雜志，1992 年二月，Carl L. Crossman 文
《中國外銷家俱》第 334 頁，圖 V 與第 337 頁 For a slightly less-restrained example of Chippendale’s so-called
‘Buroe’ table see Christie’s, London, 50 Years of Collecting:
展出記錄： Decorative Arts of Georgian England, 14 May 2003, lot 140.
麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》
，1986-1988 See another very fine example from the Estate of Marjorie Crystal
sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 22 January 1999, lot 79. It too had an
Carl Crossman, in remarks on this desk in The Magazine Antiques, arrangement of seven drawers centering a kneehole fitted with two
February 1992, in an article entitled ‘China Trade Furniture’, p. drawers and was similarly mounted with large carrying handles to the
337, notes the rarity of Chinese export kneehole dressing tables, sides. The Sotheby’s catalogue footnote references Carl Crossman’s
an immensely practical furniture form, that could serve as a desk, book, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, and accredits the
a storage cabinet, or a dressing table. He illustrates the Milhender Milhender desk.
example (Pl. V) and states that it is copied directly from Thomas
Chippendale’s first edition The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s
Director of 1754, varying only in measurements. He also mentions
the particularly fine quality of the Chinese brass hardware referred to
as paktong (baitong).

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