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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
~885
A RARE HUANGHUALI ROUND-CORNER TAPERED CABINET, YUANJIAOGUI
17TH CENTURY
The beautifully proportioned cabinet has a rounded rectangular top supported on elegantly splayed legs of
circular section. The matched single-panel doors open to reveal the shelved interior, all above a
plain apron and spandrels.
45æ in. (116.2 cm.) high, 29 in. (73.6 cm.) wide, 17Ω in. (44.5 cm.) deep

$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1993.
Round-cornered cabinets are usually splayed and have round-edged tops that protrude beyond the side
posts. The present cabinet is no exception to this standard. One of similar proportions and form, and of
slightly larger size (148 cm. high), dated to the 17th century, in the collection of The Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, illustrated by Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, 1999, pp. 150-51, no. 52, where the authors note that “round-
corner, sloping style cabinets, yuanjiaogui, were made in sizes ranging from those suitable for table tops
to more imposing storage furniture over seven feet in height.”
十七世紀 黃花梨圓角櫃

(another view)