86.5×45×143cm (34×17 3/4×56 1/4 in.)

出版：《洪氏所藏木器百圖》（Chinese Furniture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection）第二卷，圖4，Privately Published•Hong Kong•2005，第19頁。
The door panels are in rare book-matched burl wood (yingmu) which could be from camphor, elm or huanghuali. Their selective use would have provided a variation of color and texture as well as lowered the final cost of the cabinet. It is possible that this cabinet and its missing mate were custom-ordered to match a pre-existing suite of seat furniture bearing the same combination of huanghuali and burl wood. Such chairs and tables are rare, but examples of case furniture such as the present cabinet are even more so.
The wood-hinged doors flank a central post that allows for a lock and secures the interior of one shelf with a pair of drawers. As civil officials were posted to different locations, important household furniture had to be transportable. These doors were easily detached and less likely to split their hinges than those with riveted metal-hinges. When the cabinet was first constructed, no glue was used, but after dismantling, shrinkage or expansion upon subsequent transportation, most members were re-secured with glue.
Furniture was often altered to suit new locations, climates, room proportions and styles. Tables were shortened and standing furniture was reduced in height. There is no doubt that the legs on cupboards from the south range from two to four inches higher than those on examples from the north. This is due to the frequency of flooding. Some furniture found in the north may originally have been made in the south and then reduced in height.
There is a related cabinet in huanghuali and burl wood, but without the rectangular panel below the doors, in the Dr. S. Y. Yip collection (see Bruce 1991, no. 48.)
—Robert H. Ellsworth (Chinese Funiture: The Hung Collection)

Price estimate:
HKD: 1,400,000 - 2,000,000
USD: 178,400 - 255,000

Auction Result:
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