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ANOTHER PROPERTY Twin cabinets such as the present lot were very popular items of furniture
during the Qing dynasty. Another cabinet of similar form, but decorated with
1111 scholars in landscapes, dated to the Qianlong period (1736-1795) is in the
collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and is illustrated
A CARVED RED LACQUER CABINET in East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New York,
18TH-19TH CENTURY 1991, p. 113, no. 47. Another example with a single drawer across the top and
a more elaborate interior composition of two larger drawers and four smaller
The cabinet is formed of two sections, each with a hinged door, and each drawers is illustrated in The Complete Collections of Treasures of the Palace
door, side and back panel is deeply carved with an arrangement of precious Museum: Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, no. 45.
vessels against a diaper ground, all surrounded by a dense foliate scroll border.
The two stepped drawers above are similarly carved on the top with panels Compare a cabinet of similar construction and inscribed with an Imperial
containing precious vessels and joined by a gilt openwork handle. The interior poem, sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1219, and another
of each cabinet section is lacquered black and contains a central drawer cabinet carved with precious objects from the Kaisendo Museum, Yamagata,
fronted with diaper-carved red lacquer. Japan, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3576.
11 in. (28 cm.) high, 13√ in. (35.2 cm.) wide, 7æ in. (19.6 cm.) deep 清十八/十九世紀 剔紅雜寳紋小櫃
$20,000-30,000
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