17TH CENTURY

細節

A HUANGHUALI TABLE-TOP CHEST, GUANPIXIANG
17th century
The flat-topped cover above a pair of book-matched panelled doors with a well-figured whorling grain pattern, the interior set with an upper tray above a central large drawer surrounded by five smaller drawers and one lower rectangular drawer, the sides set with rectangular handles, the top with ruyi-head corner mounts adjoining the rectangular corner pieces and the square hinges, the face plate flush with the door and set with hu-shaped pulls
14¼ in. (36.5 cm.) high, 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) wide, 9¾ in. (24.5 cm.) deep

注意事項

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拍品專文

Compare the pair of table-top chests of wider proportions, formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 8, and illustrated by Curtis Evarts, 'Uniting Elegance and Utility: Metal Mounts on Chinese Furniture', JCCFS, Summer, 1994, p.36, fig.12, and by Wang and Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p.140, no.66