18TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI DRESSING CASE WITH MIRROR STAND, JINGXIANG
18TH CENTURY
Of square form, the retractable mirror stand is inset with reticulated panels carved with lingzhi and floral sprays framing a central aperture, above a single-panel fall front door, which opens to reveal the interior with two drawers. The whole is raised on short, inward-curved feet, and the surface retains much of the original lacquer.
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high when open, 10¾ in. (27.4 cm.) square

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in 1988.

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Lot Essay

As discussed by C. Evarts and Wang Shixiang in Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 150-1, when the mirror stand is removed, the dressing case doubles as a small table. This is described in the late Ming novel, Jin Ping Mei, when wine and food are brought to one of the women's rooms and served upon a small dressing case with its mirror stand removed.

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