17TH CENTURY

Details

A RARE HUANGHUALI TEMPLE-FORM SHRINE
17TH CENTURY
28 in. (71.1 cm.) high, 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.7 cm.) deep

Literature

R. Hatfield Ellsworth, N. Grindley and Anita Christy, Chinese Furniture - One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, New York, 1996, pp. 238-239, no.98

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Lot Essay

Most Chinese homes contained shrines to household deities who had specific domestic or heavenly terrain. Daily or seasonal veneration of these spirits, as well as Buddhist, Daoist, and ancestral worthies, assured temporal worlds would be maintained. The current huanghuali temple-form shrine is of substantial size would have been made for an affluent household.

Compare with a pair of huanghuali temple-form shrines sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, lot 2534.

This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.

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