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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION PROVENANCE
1331 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kullgren.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4-5 December, 1958, lot 385 and
A PAIR OF JICHIMU CORNER CABINETS 386.
18TH-19TH CENTURY Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Else Sackler Collections, New York.
The upper cabinet is constructed from openwork fretwork panels By descent within the family.
above rectangular panels carved in relief. The doors open to reveal
the shelved interior, above the lower cabinet constructed from single- EXHIBITED
foating panels of fnely grained jichimu. The whole is supported on
square vertical stiles that terminate in hoof feet. On loan: Los Angeles County Museum, 1940s.
On loan: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
74Ω in. ( cm.) high, 40æ in. ( cm.) wide, 23Ω in. ( cm.) deep
LITERATURE
$40,000-60,000
B. Flynn, “Gregor Norman-Wilcox,” Journal of the Classical Chinese
Furniture Society, Autumn 1991, pp. 58-63, fg. 1.
W. M. Drummond, “Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections:
Early Scholarship, 1969,” Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society,
Summer 1993, pp. 54-66, pl. 6.
清十八/十九世紀 雞翅木直櫺式櫃一對
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