
Coco Li
Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art
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清初期 十七世紀 黃花梨方角藥櫃
Provenance:
Ever Arts, Hong Kong, 1 March 1996
來源:
香港恆藝館(Ever Arts),1996年3月1日
Traveling cabinets of this size served various functions, as bookcases, storage boxes and in this case, various purposes, for books, precious objects and games, or in this case, as a probable apothecary cabinet. For examples with different interior construction, see Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley and Anita Christi. CHINESE FURNITURE. One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection (New York, 1996), Vol II, nos. 65 and 66, pp. 130-133; Curtis Evarts. Liang Yi Collection. Huanghuali (Hong Kong, United Sky Resources Limited, 2007), no. 63, page 158, and Gustav Ecke. Chinese Domestic Furniture. (Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Company. 1962) p. 135, no. 107, the last built with the same interior as the present lot. See also Christie's, 7 October 2020, lot 431, for a traveling bookcase of large size.