A RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI SQUARE-CORNER CABINETS, FANGJIAOGUI
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
明末/清初 黃花梨方角櫃一對

17TH CENTURY

細節
黃花梨木製。四面平式。櫃內裝膛板,設二具抽屜。下壼門式牙條,淺刻卷草紋。方足。

方角櫃與圓角櫃的分別,主要在於櫃角、腿足的形狀。方角櫃較少見,尤其是本對櫃四面、櫃頂全用黃花梨木料,當時就已是價值不菲。本對櫃偏矮的原故,應在於其原來作炕櫃,擺在炕床上升高而用。

攻玉山房藏一對較小的鸂鶒木炕櫃,曾於香港中文大學文物館1998年舉辦《攻玉山房藏明式黃花梨家具》展覽中展出,圖錄編號35。另見一件黃花梨方角櫃,載於1990年香港出版王世襄著《明式家具研究》(英文版),編號D35。

此品1988年源自倫敦Nicholas Grindley,後成為紐約私人收藏,1992年再次購自Nicholas Grindley。
來源
Nicholas Grindley, 1988.
Private New York collection.
Nicholas Grindley, 1992.

榮譽呈獻

Christopher Engle
Christopher Engle

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The fangjiaogui, or square-corner cabinet, appears less frequently its counterpart, the yuanjiaogui, or tapered cabinet, which is most often constructed with rounded corners. The low proportions of the present cabinets might suggest that they were originally used on a kang or similar platform, which would have elevated them. A pair of smaller related jichimu cabinets is illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce in Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 128-29, no. 35, where the author notes that cabinets of this smaller height were placed on the kang. A huanghuali cabinet of similar form is illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 157, no. D35.

Of particular note on the present cabinets is the extensive use of huanghuali, which is found on all sides, including the top, and which would have made the pair quite costly, even at their time of manufacture.

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