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拍品專文
This portable box was designed to fit between the rails of an official's sedan chair, to be easily removed and taken inside. This standard form accommodated paper and scrolls in the central section, with brushes and seals in the projecting ends. For a discussion of sedan chair boxes, see Grace Wu Bruce, "Small Portable Treasures," Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1993, pp. 57-59.
A huanghuali sedan chair box of comparable size, formerly from the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Collection and now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is illustrated in Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago, 1999, p. 200-201. no. 74. Another example, formerly in the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Renaissance, California, was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 6. A third one, from the Feng Wen Tang Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 2821.
A huanghuali sedan chair box of comparable size, formerly from the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Collection and now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is illustrated in Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago, 1999, p. 200-201. no. 74. Another example, formerly in the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Renaissance, California, was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 6. A third one, from the Feng Wen Tang Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 2821.