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Lot Essay
This portable box was designed to fit between the rails of an official’s sedan chair, and easily removed and taken indoors. This standard form accommodated paper and scrolls in the central section with brushes and seals being placed in the projecting ends. For a discussion on sedan chair document boxes see Grace Wu Bruce, ‘Small Portable Treasures’, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn, 1993, pp. 57-59.
A huanghuali box of similar size and shape, formerly from the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, Renaissance, California, was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 6. Compare also to another example in the Feng Wen Tang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 2821.
This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.
A huanghuali box of similar size and shape, formerly from the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, Renaissance, California, was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 6. Compare also to another example in the Feng Wen Tang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 2821.
This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.