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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
~887
A TWO-DRAWER HUANGHUALI COFFER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The two-panel top is set in a rectangular frame above two drawers
and a single foating panel, with a plain, beaded apron and
spandrels below. The whole is raised on gently splayed, beaded
legs joined by pairs of stretchers.
34Ω in. (87.5 cm.) high, 54æ in. (139.1 cm.) wide,
20¿ in. (51.1 cm) deep
$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 6 May 1982, lot 289.
Nicholas Grindley, London, 1982.
EXHIBITED
On loan: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1983-1994.
Compare a related two-drawer huanghuali cofer, set with everted
ends and with a shaped, beaded apron, in the Victoria & Albert
Museum, London, illustrated by C. Clunas, Chinese Furniture,
London, 1998, p. 84, no. 67. See another two-drawer huanghuali
cofer of related proportions sold at Christie’s New York: The
Collection of Robert Hatfeld Ellsworth Part II: Chinese Furniturer,
Scholar’s Objects and Chinese Paintings, 18 March 2015, lot
167. For a discussion of this form, refer to Curtis Everts, “The
Enigmatic Altar Cofer,” Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture
Society, Autumn 1994, pp. 29-44.
清十八/十九世紀 黃花梨聯二櫥

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