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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 明十七世紀 黃花梨亮格櫃
A HUANGHUALI DISPLAY CABINET, LIANGGEGUI
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY 來源：
香港佳士得1994年10月31日，編號417
the large cabinet set with a pair of hinged doors composed of
single-board floating panels within rectangular frames, opening
to reveal a shelved interior with two drawers, beneath a display
shelf with vertical spindles on the shorter sides, all supported
on legs of square section joined by plain beaded aprons and
spandrels
87.2 by 44.7 by h. 187.3 cm, 34¼ by 17½ by h. 73¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 31st October 1994, lot 417.

◉ HK$ 1,500,000-2,000,000
US$ 194,000-258,000

This tall cabinet is notable for its sober and yet sophisticated 此櫃秀雅挺拔，櫃門取黃花梨造，木紋流暢。牙條邊
elegance, which draws attention to the vivid patterns of the 沿起陽線，亮格兩側作直欞，此外不著雕飾。明清建
huanghuali door panels. The cabinet was left undecorated save 築多以欞條飾門窗，流光透影，別有趣致。
for the beaded edges of the aprons and the cylindrical bars
on the sides of the open shelf. The latter echo the latticework
often found on Ming and Qing dynasty doors and windows, 櫃頂設格，敞闊無門，明中後期始見，京城匠師名之
and served to create interesting shadows when light filtered 曰「亮格櫃」。亮格櫃多置文房，格內可陳奇珍雅
through. 件，明末文人雅士文震亨於《長物志》云，櫥「以置
Known as lianggegui among modern Beijing cabinet-makers, 古銅、玉、小器為宜」。
cabinets with a high open shelf first appeared around the
mid-to late Ming dynasty. Generally reserved for the scholar’s 亮格兩側作直欞者，實不多見，可比一對作例，不
studio, where the top shelf was used to display curious and 作透欞，乃作壼門券口，檀香山藝術博物館藏，見
rare antiquities, cabinets of this type are mentioned by Wen
Zhenheng, the 17th century scholar and arbiter of refinement, Stephen L. Little 及 James Jensen，《Chinese Furniture
in his Zhang wu zhi [Treaties on Superfluous Things]. Here he in the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The Frederic Mueller
informs that cabinets (chu) had to be ‘suitable for the display Bequest》，刊於《Chinese Furniture. Selected Articles from
of antique bronzes, jades and curios’. Orientations 1984-1999》，香港，1999年，頁61，圖版10
Display cabinets with vertical bars on the sides of the open ；另一例稍大，北京，故宮博物院藏，見《故宮博物
shelf are unusual. For related examples see a pair of cabinets, 院藏文物珍品全集・明清家具（上）》，香港，2002
with shaped aprons instead of bars, in the Honolulu Academy 年，圖版183；及一例，傳十八世紀，售於紐約佳士得
of Arts, illustrated in Stephen L. Little and James Jensen,
‘Chinese Furniture in the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The 2011年3月24日，編號1372。
Frederic Mueller Bequest’, Chinese Furniture. Selected Articles
from Orientations 1984-1999, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 61, pl. 10; a
slightly larger cabinet in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong, 2002,
pl. 183; and another, attributed to the 18th century, sold at
Christie’s New York, 24th March 2011, lot 1372.

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