18TH CENTURY

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A HONGMU CLOTHES CHEST
18TH CENTURY
16 3⁄8 in. (41.6 cm.) high, 30 ¼ in. (78.1 cm.) wide, 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Eastern Pacific (Hei Hunglu), Hong Kong, 1997.

Literature

N. Grindley, March 2009, no. 9.

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Lot Essay

Used to store out of season clothing and textiles, clothes chest were made in a variety of materials including huanghuali, hongmu, and camphor. See, a huanghuali clothes chest in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by R. Jacobsen and N. Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999, pp. 190-191, no. 69.

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