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A ‘HUANGHUALI’ SLOPING-STILE 民國 黃花梨圓角櫃
WOOD PIN-HINGED CABINET
(YUANJIAOGUI) 來源
REPUBLIC PERIOD 1950年代購於巴黎（傳）
紐約私人收藏
the mitered, mortice and tenon frame top with
a floating recessed panel tongue and grooved
into the inside edge of the frame, supported
underneath by two transverse stretchers, with
tenons exposed on the short sides and finished
with a simple cushion molding with a shoulder
above and below, the two single board doors
of typical mitered, mortice and tenon and half-
lapped construction with a floating panel and
secured with three transverse stretchers to
the reverse, the stiles tapering towards the top
both in front and side elevation, the side panels
also of single board construction with three
transverse stretchers and framed by simple
round moldings, softwood backboards tongue
and grooved into the rear stiles and supported
with three transverse stretchers, the interior
with three softwood shelves and base panel,
all surmounting the plain eared aprons mitered
and half-lapped and tongue and grooved into
the inside edge of the legs on three sides, the
interior with three elm wood shelves, huangtong
curved rectangular lock plates and door pulls
height 73½ in., 186.8 cm; Width 37 in., 94 cm;
Depth 19½ in., 49.5 cm
PROVENANCE
purchased in paris in the 1950s (by repute).
new York private Collection.
◉ $ 50,000-70,000

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