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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
968
A ZITAN STEPPED CABINET
19TH CENTURY
The square cabinet has two hinged doors between
drawers above and below. The doors, drawer
fronts, and side panels are intricately carved with
dragons amidst clouds. The whole is raised on a
canted base carved en suite.
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high, 20æ in. (52.7 cm.) wide,
13 in. (33 cm.) deep
$80,000-120,000
Compare a similar zitan cabinet elaborately
carved with dragons and clouds and raised
on a tapered base, sold at Christie’s Paris,
10 December 2014, lot 190. A related pair of
hongmu cabinets, without the canted bases,
and formerly in The K’ung Hsiang-Hsi (Kong
Xiangxi, 1881-1967) Collection, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 17 September 2015, lot
2026. With their dragon-and-cloud motifs, such
cabinets undoubtedly graced the interior of an
imperial setting.
清十九世紀 紫檀雲龍紋小櫃
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