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L A C Q U E R • J A D E • B R O N Z E • I N K T H E R V I N G C O L L E C T I O N 髹金飾玉 - 歐雲伉儷珍藏

~1207 A LARGE THREE-DRAWER
HUANGHUALI COFFER
CHINA, 20TH CENTURY

The paneled top with everted ends above three
drawers and a pair of plain panels, the whole raised
on splayed legs of rectangular section fanked by
shaped spandrels
34Ω in. (87.6 cm.) high, 68º in. (173.4 cm.) wide,
21º in. (54 cm.) deep
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE
The Collection of Alice Boney, New York.
Johnstone-Fong, Inc., Kennett Square,
Pennsylvania, 1991.
The Irving Collection, no. 1034.

A three-drawer huanghuali altar cofer of similar
proportions, but with a more elaborately carved
spandrel, formerly from the Ed and Nancy
Rosenthal Collection, was sold at Christie’s,
New York, 14-15 September 2017, lot 949. 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.
二十世紀 黃花梨三屜悶戶櫥

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