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17TH CENTURY
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A Baitong-Mounted Huanghuali Box and Cover and Two Huanghuali Brass-Mounted Boxes, Xiaoxiang
17th Century
All of rectangular shape, the larger box mounted at each end with 'ox-nose' bail handles suspended from large quatrefoil-form mounting plates falling to a knocking plate of conforming shape, the front with a large rectangular lockplate and striking patterning in the wood and the smaller boxes with lockplates of the same shape mounted flush with the front and continuing over the beaded lip, one with ruyi-head mounts on the top adjoining corner reinforcements, the other with finely whorled wood with several 'eyes'
The larger box: 65/8in. (16.9cm.) high, 153/8in. (39.1cm.) wide, 86in. (20.7cm.) deep; the smaller boxes 17/8in. (4.7cm.) high, 12¾in. (32.5cm.) wide, 6¼in. (15.8cm.) deep and 23/8in. (6cm.) high, 136in. (33.8cm.) wide, 6¾in. (17.2cm.) deep (3)
17th Century
All of rectangular shape, the larger box mounted at each end with 'ox-nose' bail handles suspended from large quatrefoil-form mounting plates falling to a knocking plate of conforming shape, the front with a large rectangular lockplate and striking patterning in the wood and the smaller boxes with lockplates of the same shape mounted flush with the front and continuing over the beaded lip, one with ruyi-head mounts on the top adjoining corner reinforcements, the other with finely whorled wood with several 'eyes'
The larger box: 65/8in. (16.9cm.) high, 153/8in. (39.1cm.) wide, 86in. (20.7cm.) deep; the smaller boxes 17/8in. (4.7cm.) high, 12¾in. (32.5cm.) wide, 6¼in. (15.8cm.) deep and 23/8in. (6cm.) high, 136in. (33.8cm.) wide, 6¾in. (17.2cm.) deep (3)
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