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PROPERTY FROM A VIRGINIA PRIVATE COLLECTION The cabinet, designed for storage, features exceptionally fine
A GILT AND POLYCHROMED BLACK LACQUER shaped panels painted with an array of flowers and birds set
CABINET into elaborate archaistic openwork. Related examples from
the Qing Court Collection share characteristics of the present
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD cabinet. The use of shaped panels, openwork, and painted
Height 67½ in., 171.5 cm; Width 42¼ in., 107.3 cm; Depth lacquer are illustrated by a display cabinet in Furniture of
16⅝ in., 42.2 cm the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 215.
PROVENANCE Compare another display cabinet with closely related kui
Collection of Hope (1901-1984) and Lewis R. Andrews (1892- dragon scrolls, ibid., pl. 220.
1990), Tulip Hill, Maryland, acquired in Shanghai in the
1920s-1930s, and thence by descent. $ 50,000-70,000
LITERATURE 清乾隆 黑漆加彩描金立櫃
Hope Andrews, ‘Living with Antiques’, Antiques, October 1969,
p. 564. 來源
The present cabinet from the collection of Hope and Lewis Hope (1901-1984) 及 Lewis R. Andrews (1892-1990) 伉儷
Andrews has a remarkable history. Lewis Andrews, a 收藏，Tulip Hill，馬里蘭州，1920至1930年代得於上
decorated British officer, moved to Shanghai in 1919 after his 海，此後家族傳承
service during World War I. The couple met in Shanghai in the
1920s, fell in love with Chinese art and immediately started 出版
collecting until their passion was interrupted by World War Hope Andrews，〈Living with Antiques〉，
II. After the war, the couple and their collection moved to 《Antiques》，1969年10月，頁564
the US. In 1947 they purchased Tulip Hill in Maryland, now
recognized as one of the most historically and architecturally
significant pre-revolutionary American mansions.
Hope Andrews vividly recounted the wartime drama and the
fate of the cabinet for an article entitled ‘Living with Antiques’
in Antiques, October 1969. She recalled purchasing the
cabinet in Shanghai and being informed that it was made
during the Qianlong reign. During the war, the Andrews’
house on Hongqiao road was looted but, fortunately, the
lacquer cabinet was recovered after the war. As Andrews
noted, it was “recovered from the veranda of what had been
the Japanese military headquarters. It had been exposed to
the winds and rains of the typhoon season, but such is the
durability of eighteenth-century Peking lacquer work that it
suffered relatively little damage”. At Tulip Hill, the cabinet was
prominently placed in the living room among the couple’s
other fine furnishings and artworks.

The present lot illustrated in Hope Andrews, ‘Living with
Antiques’, Antiques, October 1969, p. 564.
本拍品錄於 Hope Andrews，<Living with Antiques>，《Antiques》，
1969年10月，頁564
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