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A RARE CHINESE MIXED WOOD TAMBOUR FRONT 出版記錄：
DRESSING/SHAVING STAND Kee Il Choi Jr., 特邀策展人，《中國貿易：羅曼史與現實》，麻州林
Circa 1800 肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年，第 28 頁
Of tall rectangular shape with side-hinged top opening to reveal
circular openings for shaving bowl and beakers and a pull-up folding 展出記錄：
mirrored back, the carcass is comprised of four uprights with floating 麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年 6 月 22 日至 9 月 16 日
panels at the sides and back, the sliding tambour front set between
graduated drawers and with Chinese brass carrying handles to the In Kee Il Choi’s important reference work, The China Trade: Romance
sides. and Reality, an exhibition organized by the De Cordova Museum,
32in (81.3cm) high; 19 1/2in (49.5cm) wide; 18 1/2in (47cm) deep Lincoln, Massachusetts in collaboration with The Museum of the
American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, this shaving stand
$4,000 - 6,000 is illustrated alongside an informative footnote and a detail of the
mitered corner joints and exposed mortise and tenon joints, the
1900 年前後 多種木料拉門梳洗檯 dovetail and the floating panel, standard devices commonly applied
in domestic Chinese furniture. Choi notes that the third edition of
Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director,
Provenance 1762, includes such shaving tables or washing tables, a form that
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, Fine Americana: The Carl L. Crossman remained popular through the nineteenth century.
China Trade Collection, 26-29 January 1977, lot 226
The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, For another very similar Chinese tambour-fronted dressing/shaving
1977-present stand, see Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade:
Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities, Antique Collector’s
Published Club, Suffolk, UK, 1991, p. 238, Plate 126, that was imported
Kee Il Choi Jr., Guest Curator, The China Trade: Romance and to Providence, Rhode Island by Edward Dexter in 1805 and now
Reality, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979, p. 28 housed in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.

Exhibited A simpler English or American mahogany square shaving stand can
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, June 22 – September be found in the George Washington’s Mount Vernon Museum, see
16, 1979. Helen Maggs Fede, Washington Furniture at Mount Vernon, Mount
Vernon, Virginia: Mount Vernon Ladies Association, 1966, pp. 24-25,
出處： no. 27.
蘇富比帕克-博内，《美國藝術精品：Carl L. Crossman 所藏中國外
銷藝術》，1977 年一月 26-29 日，拍品第 226 號
麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1977 年至今

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