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ANOTHER PROPERTY
~799
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI SLOPING STYLE CABINETS The simplicity and elegance of form of these cabinets evoke the classical
18TH CENTURY Ming style. The combination of design, perfect proportions and precise
Each has a protruding, round-corner top raised on slightly splayed and beaded craftsmanship lend the cabinet a refined elegance and sense of balance and
legs of rounded-square section. The rectangular single-panel doors open stability. The form was widely used in cabinet-making throughout the Ming
from the removable center stile to reveal the shelved interior fitted with two and Qing dynasties. A single huanghuali round-corner cabinet of similar
drawers, all above beaded aprons and shaped spandrels at the front and sides. proportion and dimensions was sold at Christie's New York, 25 September
2020, lot 1644. Another example with similar proportion and dimensions was
65 æ in. (167. cm) high, 32Ω in. (83.5 cm.) wide, 16 º in. (41.2 cm.) deep (2) sold at The Feng Wen Tang Collection of Bamboo Carvings and Furniture,
Christie's Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 2824.
$70,000-90,000
PROVENANCE: 十八世紀 黃花梨圓角櫃一對
Property of a San Francisco Bay Area Gentleman, Bonhams San Francisco, 10
December 2015, lot 8195. 來源:
舊金山灣區私人珍藏, 舊金山邦瀚斯, 2015年12月10日, 拍品編號 8195

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
~798
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI 'OFFICIAL'S HAT' ARMCHAIRS A jichimu ‘official’s hat’ armchair of similar broader proportions in the body,
19TH CENTURY and flattened crestrail with rounded ends is illustrated by Wang Shixiang
Each with the curved crestrail terminating in elegant rounded ends and in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol.
II, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 44, pl. A71, and is currently at the Nanjing Museum.
supported on a plain backsplat above the gracefully curving arms. The mat Another pair in huanghuali ‘official’s hat’ armchairs of related proportions, but
seat is set in a rectangular frame above beaded aprons and raised on rounded with cut-off squared members, was sold at Christie’s New York,16 January
square-section legs joined by stretchers on the sides and a footrest at the 2019, lot 28.
front. The feet are set in metal sabots.
40 in. (101.6 cm.) high, 24 in. (61 cm.) wide, 25Ω in. (64.8 cm.) deep (2)
重要紐約私人珍藏
$100,000-150,000 十九世紀 黃花梨四出頭官帽椅一對
來源:
PROVENANCE:
A private American collector, Switzerland. 美籍私人珍藏, 瑞士
Michael C. Hughes, LLC. Asian Art, New York, 2005. 胡悅史, 紐約, 2005年
展覽:
EXHIBITED:
New York, Ingrao Gallery, Chinese and Tibetan Works of Art, March-April 2005. 紐約, Ingrao 藝廊, 「Chinese and Tibetan Works of Art」, 2005年3-4月
出版:
LITERATURE:
Michael C. Hughes, LLC., Chinese and Tibetan Works of Art, New York, 2005, Michael C. Hughes, LLC., 《Chinese and Tibetan Works of Art》, 紐約, 2005
pp. 18-19, no. 7. 年, 編號7
The form of the present pair of armchairs is often called 'four corner's-
exposed', and is one of the earliest classic forms found in huanghuali furniture
design. A number of variations on this type are known, including those with
rounded ends, such as the present pair, or cut-off squared members, those
with plain splats,and those with added decorative carving or embellishment.

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