Auction | China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd.
2019 Autumn Auctions
Classic Furniture from the Hung Collection

991
Pair of Huanghuali Compound Cabinets

92.2×50.8×179.6 cm (36 1/4×20×70 3/4 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),圖72,Privately Published•New York•1996,第187頁。
《日升月騰 1368-1644 從敏求精舍藏品看明代》圖217,香港歷史博物館編制,第278頁。
Though somewhat smaller than the other compound cabinets in this collection (No. 73), the proportions and decor of this handsome pair are similarly majestic in feeling. The upper cabinets, or hat cupboards, are of mitered, mortise-and-tenoned, frame construction. The square-section stiles are mitered and tenoned into the frame, with the miter stopping just short of the corner of the cabinet. The rear stile, constructed in the same manner, but with the miter joining at the corner, frames a three-board, flush, floating-panel side with one supporting transverse stretcher.
The doors of the upper cabinet are of standard mitered, mortise-and-tenoned, frame construction, with the tenons exposed in the short rails, Each door has a single, flush, floating panel tongue and grooved into the inside edge of the frame with a single supporting transverse stretcher through-tenoned in the long rails. The door panels are profusely decorated with relief carving that projects slightly above the surface of the frame: a dragon holding a flaming pearl amidst clouds and above breaking waves. The circular, surface-mounted, pai-t'ung (white brass) hinges and lock escutcheons are engraved with similar dragons amidst clouds, and are retained by split pins to the door frame and stiles.
Each door panel on the lower section has two dragons chasing a flaming pearl in a mist of clouds and waves. The same basic construction is repeated in the lower cabinets; in this section, however, the outer stiles extend to become the feet. Shadow marks on the feet indicate that they originally had brass caps. A deep panel beneath the doors is framed by two horizontal, mitered rails, the lower of which is through-tenoned into the stiles. A plain, mitered apron is tongue and grooved into the inside edge of the legs and the underside of the lower rail. The interior of the cabinet has a removable shelf with two drawers.
—Robert H. Ellsworth (Chinese Funiture: The Hung Collection)

Price estimate:
HKD: 13,500,000 - 20,000,000
USD: 1,721,900 - 2,550,000

Auction Result:
HKD: --

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