CHINA, 20TH CENTURY

Details

A LARGE THREE-DRAWER HUANGHUALI COFFER
CHINA, 20TH CENTURY
The paneled top with everted ends above three drawers and a pair of plain panels, the whole raised on splayed legs of rectangular section flanked by shaped spandrels
34 ½ in. (87.6 cm.) high, 68 ¼ in. (173.4 cm.) wide, 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Collection of Alice Boney, New York.
Johnstone-Fong, Inc., Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 1991.
The Irving Collection, no. 1034.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A three-drawer huanghuali altar coffer of similar proportions, but with a more elaborately carved spandrel, formerly from the Ed and Nancy Rosenthal Collection, was sold at Christie's, New York, 14-15 September 2017, lot 949. For a discussion of this form, refer to Curtis Everts, "The Enigmatic Altar Coffer," Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1994, pp. 29-44.

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