A Huanghuali tapered cabinet 17th / 18th century

the four frame members set below the rounded rectangular floating top panel, joined by four round posts at each corner forming the tapered silhouette, the pair of doors framed by rounded stiles, opening to an interior with two shelves and a pair of short drawers, supported on short feet with a plain apron and curved spandrels, with baitong plates, pulls and lock

Acquired on the Hong Kong market by an American collects or, 1987.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.

This cabinet is in good condition and exhibits much of its original thick black lacquer on the back. The horizontal transverse on the back has been replaced. Two thick sections on the right and left of the back have replacement boards. The two sides each have long vertical cracks, but none of the wood have been replaced as they exhibit the same fracture lines. The doors are original, though the baitong are replacements. There is an old patch to the bottom of the proper left door. The transverses on the back of the doors are original. The interior is lined with paper, and old holes (probably bored by mice) have been patched. The drawers and frames for the drawers are possibly replacements but are of early date. The shelf is newer pine wood, painted and stained. The aprons are both replaced. On the bottom, one transverse is original, the other replaced.
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A similar tapered cabinet in The Dr. S. Y. Yip collects ion of Classic Chinese Furniture, is illustrated in Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and The Romance with Huanghuali, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 47. Cabinets of this type, but with a central stile, are illustrated in Nancy Berliner, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston, 1996, cat.no. 26; and Robert D. Jacobsen with Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture, The Minnesota Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, cat.no. 51.