Lot Essay
A pair of cabinets of this shape illustrated by Wang Shixiang and C. Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture , Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 130, no. 61, was sold in Christie's New York, 19 September 1996, lot 19. The same pair is also illustrated by S. Handler, "Classical Chinese Furniture in the Renaissance Collection", Orientations, January 1991, p. 43, fig. 3; and by M. Wachowiak, "New Directions in the Study of Chinese Furniture", Asian Art, JCCFS, Winter 1993, p. 13, fig. 14. Another taller pair is illustrated by G. Wu Bruce, Ming Furniture, p. 55. Other examples are illustrated by G. Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, p. 112, pl. 91; by R.H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 206, fig. 121; by G. Wu Bruce, Chinese Classical Furniture, Hong Kong, 1995, fig. 17, and again in the exhibition catalogue, The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 59.