拍品專文
Compare a related two-drawer huanghuali coffer, set with everted ends and with a shaped, beaded apron, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, illustrated by C. Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1998, p. 84, no. 67. See another two-drawer huanghuali coffer of related proportions sold at Christie's New York: The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part II: Chinese Furniturer, Scholar's Objects and Chinese Paintings, 18 March 2015, lot 167. 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.