A PAIR OF JICHIMU SLOPING-STILE KANG CABINETS, KANGGUI

17TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF JICHIMU SLOPING-STILE KANG CABINETS, KANGGUI
17th century
A PAIR OF JICHIMU SLOPING-STILE KANG CABINETS, KANGGUI 17th century Each small cabinet with a rounded, protruding rectangular top supported on slightly splayed, rounded corner posts, beaded where they meet the side panels and doors, enclosing beautifully figured floating panel doors with rounded molded frames and fitted with shaped huangtong lockplates and pulls, the doors opening to reveal two shelves and two drawers with similar pulls, all above a beaded edged apron and shaped stretchers 24¾in. (62.9cm.) high, 20in. (50.6cm.) wide, 10½in. (26.5cm.) deep
24¾in. (62.9cm.) high, 20in. (50.6cm.) wide, 10½in. (26.5cm.) deep (2)

Literature

The Hong Kong Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 311, cat. no. 282.
Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 128-129, cat. 35.

Exhibited

Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995-1996.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 18-24 November, 1999.
National Heritage Board, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 1996-1999.

Lot Essay

Cabinets of this small size would have been used on the bed or kang in the north, and in the corridor of the alcove canopy bed in the south.

Compare a jichimu kang cabinet in the collection of Mrs. Chen Mengjia, illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 210, figs. 139 and 140 and in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, vol. II, p. 150, D21.

Refer, also, a huanghuali kang cabinet with a central stile, sold at Christie's, New York, The Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection of Fine Classical Chinese Furniture, 18 September, 1997, lot 32.

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