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RARE COFFRE EN HUANGHUALI, LIANERCHU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE

Le plateau supérieur est inséré dans un cadre rectangulaire. La façade
ouvre à deux tiroirs surmontant trois panneaux horizontaux. Il est
pourvu de quatre pieds légèrement convexes de section rectangulaire,
fanqués à l’avant de chilong ajourés ; petites restaurations.
Hauteur : 82.5 cm. (32Ω in.), largeur : 152.5 cm. (60 in.),
profondeur : 56.2 cm. (22¿ in.)

€60,000-80,000 $66,000-88,000
£51,000-68,000

PROVENANCE

Private European collection, apraised by R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., on
1 February 1973 (fg. 1) and thence by descent in the family.

A RARE TWO-DRAWER HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG ALTAR
COFFER, LIANERCHU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

清十八至十九世紀 黃花梨聯二櫥

來源：歐洲私人珍藏，1973年2月1日由著名古董商安思遠鑑定，家族傳承

An example of this type of cofer is depicted in a woodblock print from
the Lu Ban Jing and illustrated by K. Ruitenbeek, Carpentry & Building
in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter’s
Manual Lu Ban Jing, 1993, the Netherlands, p. 20, Juan II: 43. The
cofer is shown in a lady’s dressing room and supports a mirror stand
with openwork panels (fg. 2).

Compare to a three-drawer cofer with similar proportions and
openwork dragon spandrels, illustrated in Ming Furniture, Ltd., 1987,
p. 15, no. 12. See, also, a three-drawer altar cofer illustrated by Robert
Ellsworth in Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Examples From the Ming
and Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 163, pl. 61. For a discussion
of this form, refer to Curtis Everts, “The Enigmatic Altar Cofer,”
Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1994, pp.
29-44.

(fg. 1). Expertise letter by (fg. 2).
R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, 1973.