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A Ming-style huanghuali and hardwood round corner tapered…
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Sydney
Date:
18-Jul-2018
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A Ming-style huanghuali and hardwood round corner tapered cabinet Yuanjiaogui, 19th/20th century, the rounded protruding top with a recessed single panel within the mitred frame, set on slightly splayed rounded corner posts housing well figured matching single panel doors, within a raised square edged half round frame, the doors opening from the removable central stile to reveal the interior with two rectangular drawers with metal plates and pulls between two removable shelves, a plain mitred apron joined to the moulded stretcher below the doors at the front, and with similar side aprons, the door frames and central stile fitted with curved rectangular metal plates with square section lock receptacles and shaped door pulls, 129 cm high, 80 cm wide, 43 cm deep. Provenance: Hepplewhite Gallery, Singapore, 5 September 1998. Compare with a huanghuali tapered cabinet dated to the Ming dynasty illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, 1986, p. 212, pl. 141 from the Ye Wanfa Collection. A larger huanghuali cabinet dated to the late Ming dynasty sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 104.
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Category:
Oriental: Furniture