17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A JICHIMU TAPERED KANG CABINET, YUANJIAO KANGGUI
17th/18th century
The small cabinet of jichimu ('chicken wing wood'), with characteristic attractive graining resembling bird feathers, with a rounded protruding rectangular top with 'ice-plate' edge supported on slightly splayed, rounded corner posts, beaded where they meet the side panels and doors, with rounded, molded frames and fitted with rectangular lockplates and pulls, the doors opening from the removable central stile to reveal two shelves and a pair of drawers with flower- blossom lockplates and oval pulls, all above a plain, beaded apron and shaped stretchers
22 3/8in. (56.8cm.) high, 16¾in. (42.5cm.) wide, 7¼in. (18.3cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The use of jichimu and long rectangular hardware point to Fujian province as the origin of this piece. Compare a similar tapered kang cabinet made of longyan, or tiger-skin wood, another species typical of Fujian manufacture, from the collection of R. Hatfield Ellsworth, sold at Christie's, New York, 20 September, 2002, lot 136. See, also, a slightly larger example in huanghuali, sold in these rooms, The Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection of Fine Classical Chinese Furniture, 18 September, 1997, lot 32.

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