18TH-19TH CENTURY

Elegant and finely decorated huanghuali display cabinets with latticework are extremely rare. The openwork design on the upper cabinet is inspired by lattice panels seen in traditional Chinese gardens. These latticework panels in the present cabinet can be easily removed, allowing for the display or storage of precious objects on the exposed shelves such as those displayed in a typical display cabinet, for example the pair of cabinets from the Dr. Sam and Annette Mandel Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2018. A two-part cabinet with latticework doors on the upper cabinet is illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, p.159, no. D40.