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A MASSIVE HUANGHUALI and HUALI COMPOSITE CABINET AND HAT CHEST, CHAOYIGUI
THE FRAMED DOORS LATE MING DYNASTY
The tall huali square-corner cabinet with huanghuali doors and flanking panels in front carved in shallow relief with dragon scrolls set within a frame of clusters of squared scrolls, above the wide horizontal panel carved with ruyi-centered scrolls, the corner stiles extending to gilt-bronze sheathed short feet joined by a stepped apron carved with scrolls, the gilt-bronze circular escutcheons and lockplates on the cabinet and similarly carved hatchest decorated with dense archaistic dragon scrolls, all except the huanghuali doors and eight escutcheons of later date
127in. (213cm.) high, 74in. (188cm.) wide, 30¾in. (78cm.) deep
THE FRAMED DOORS LATE MING DYNASTY
The tall huali square-corner cabinet with huanghuali doors and flanking panels in front carved in shallow relief with dragon scrolls set within a frame of clusters of squared scrolls, above the wide horizontal panel carved with ruyi-centered scrolls, the corner stiles extending to gilt-bronze sheathed short feet joined by a stepped apron carved with scrolls, the gilt-bronze circular escutcheons and lockplates on the cabinet and similarly carved hatchest decorated with dense archaistic dragon scrolls, all except the huanghuali doors and eight escutcheons of later date
127in. (213cm.) high, 74in. (188cm.) wide, 30¾in. (78cm.) deep
Provenance
Mrs. Kent S. Clow, Lake Forest, Illinois (the cabinet front) The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956-1987 (the cabient front)