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A LARGE HUANGHUALI TAPERED SLOPING 十七世紀 黃花梨圓角櫃
STYLE CABINET, YUANJIAOGUI
來源
17TH CENTURY 恆藝館，香港，1995 年
The beautifully proportioned cabinet is constructed with a rounded
rectangular top supported on elegantly splayed round-section legs framing 展覽
the single-panel side panels. The matched single-panel doors open from 借展 Crow 亞洲藝術館，得克薩斯，達拉斯，2007-2014 年
the centre stile to reveal the ochre lacquered shelved interior, all set above 借展洛杉磯郡藝術博物館，加利福尼亞，2014-2019 年
plain, beaded apron and spandrels.
75 1/4 in. (191 cm.) high, 37 3/4 in. (96 cm) wide, 17 1/4 in. (44 cm.) deep 圓角櫃往往上窄下寬，櫃門邊的木軸嵌入向外延伸的櫃頂。明尼阿波利斯
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 藝術博物館藏一件比例及造型近似而尺寸稍小的明十七世紀圓角櫃，著錄
於Robert Jacobsen及Nicholas Grindley著《明尼阿波利斯藝術博物館藏中國
US$130,000-190,000 古典家具》(Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts)，
芝加哥，1999年，頁150-51，編號52，並輔有說明：「圓角櫃尺寸多樣，微型可
P R O V E N AN C E 置於案几上，大型可達七尺之高。」另一相似的圓角櫃著錄於Nancy Berliner
Ever Arts, Hong Kong, 1995. 著，《Beyond the Screen》，波士頓，2000年，頁143，編號26。

E XH IB I T E D
本例可與一對來自洪建生舊藏黃花梨圓角櫃相比較，其於香港佳士得售出，
Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, on loan from 2007-2014. 2017年11月29日，拍品2951號。另一造型類似而尺寸稍小的明代黃花梨
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, on loan from 2014- 圓角櫃，出自佛羅倫斯及赫伯特·歐雲伉儷舊藏，於紐約佳士得售出，
2019. 2019年3月21日，拍品1205號。
Round-cornered cabinets are usually splayed and have round-edged
tops that protrude beyond the side posts. One related cabinet of similar
proportions and form, and of smaller size (148 cm. high), dated to the 17th
century, in the collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is illustrated
by Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley in Classical Chinese
Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, 1999, pp. 150-51,
no. 52, where the authors note that "round-corner, sloping style cabinets,
yuanjiaogui, were made in sizes ranging from those suitable for tabletops
to more imposing storage furniture over seven feet in height." Another
closely related round-corner cabinet is illustrated by Nancy Berliner in
Beyond the Screen, Boston, 2000, p. 143, no. 26.

The present example can be compared to a pair of huanghuali yuanjiaogui
from the Raymond Hung Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29
November 2017, lot 2951. A slightly smaller Ming dynasty huanghuali
round-corner cabinet of the same shape from the Florence and Herbert
Irving Collection was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2019, lot 1205.

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