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PROPERTY FROM THE NANCY AND ED ROSENTHAL COLLECTION

~949
A LARGE HUANGHUALI THREE-DRAWER COFFER

The single-panel top is set in a rectangular frame ftted with everted ends above three drawers and a single
attractively grained horizontal foating panel above shaped, fnely beaded apron carved at the center with a
lotus bloom. The whole is raised on gently splayed legs of square section.
33º in. (84.3 cm.) high, 79æ in. (200.8 cm.) wide, 22º in. (56.5 cm.) deep
$250,000-350,000

PROVENANCE

Chan Shing Kee, Hong Kong, February 2001.

EXHIBITED

Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art, Brush Clay Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art,
7 November 2008 - 11 January 2009.

LITERATURE

V. Bower, S. Handler and J. Burris, Brush Clay Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art,
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2008, p. 56, fg. 26.
Compare a related two-drawer huanghuali cofer also exhibiting the same elegant splay of the legs
joined by the fnely carved cusped apron illustrated by S. Handler in Ming Furniture in the Light of
Chinese Architecture, Berkeley, 2005, p. 173. See, also a three-drawer altar cofer in the Victoria & Albert
Museum, set with elaborate openwork side spandrels illustrated by C. Clunas in Chinese Furniture,
London, 1988, p. 84, pl. 68. 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.
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