18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI THREE-DRAWER ALTAR COFFER, LIANSANCHU
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The long, two-panel rectangular top set in a wide frame with beaded 'ice-plate' edge, supported on slightly splayed beaded rectangular legs with rounded fronts and outside edges framing the top row of three drawers, each drawer framed by shaped molding and mounted with a baitong swing handle escutcheon, all above a long single panel, plain beaded apron and apron-head spandrels
31 7/8 in. (83.5 cm.) high, 74¾ in. (189.9 cm.) wide, 21 in. (53.3 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Compare a similarly proportioned three-drawer altar coffer, with everted flanges, sold in these rooms, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 63. See, also, a very similar three-drawer coffer illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, p. 163, no. 61. For a discussion and history of the altar coffer form, see Wang Shixiang et al., Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 92, and C. Evarts, "The Enigmatic Altar Coffer," Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1994, pp. 29-44.

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