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381 This form of cabinet was very popular in the Ming period, particularly in
A huanghuali three-drawer coffer, liansanchu Northern China. Compare a similarly three-drawer coffer with everted
Qing dynasty ends illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture:
The top with a long panel exhibiting beautiful natural wood grain, both Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol.II, Hong Kong, 1990, p.169, no.E12.
ends terminating in upward curled finials supported on sturdy protruding For a discussion and history of the altar coffer form, see ibid., vol.I, p.92,
struts beneath issuing from four post feet, encasing three rectangular and C. Evarts, ‘The Enignmatic Altar Coffer’ in Journal of the Classical
drawers each affixed with metallic circular panels complete with ruyi- Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1994, pp.29-44.
head handles and locks, above a pair of folding cabinet doors, each
sliding door fastened with two hinges and secured at the centre with 櫃櫥黃花梨木製，案形結構，櫥面兩頭翹起，面下兩端與櫥身相連處
a locking pin, the extremities all decorated with simple aprons and the 有鏤空雕花牙。櫥面下設三抽屜，並裝白銅拉環、插銷及鎖鼻。抽
wings with barbed finials depicting a lush growth of leafy vines issuing 屜下為櫃，對開兩門，四腿外撇，側腳收分。此式櫥為明式櫥櫃，
double gourds. 即可儲物，又可作案桌使用。類似的橋頭連三櫥例子，見王世襄
220cm x 52cm x 90cm high.. 編，《Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing
HK$200,000 - 400,000 Dynasties》，卷二，香港，1990年，頁169，編號E12；另見清宮舊藏
US$26,000 - 52,000 一件明代黃花梨连三柜橱，著錄於《故宫博物院藏文物珍品大系：明清
家具（上）》，香港，2002年，頁201，圖版171。
清 黃花梨花卉紋帶翹頭連三櫥

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