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Lot Essay
The use of tiger-skin wood and long rectangular brass plates and pulls point to Fujian province as the origin of this piece.
See a miniature version of a cabinet using longyuanmu sold in our New York Rooms, 20 September 2002, lot 136.
Compare with a jichimu cabinet from the same period illustrated in Tian Jiaqing, Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, Philip Wilson Publishers and Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Company Limited, Hong Kong, 1996, fig. 103
See a miniature version of a cabinet using longyuanmu sold in our New York Rooms, 20 September 2002, lot 136.
Compare with a jichimu cabinet from the same period illustrated in Tian Jiaqing, Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, Philip Wilson Publishers and Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Company Limited, Hong Kong, 1996, fig. 103