A PAIR OF IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI BOOKSHELVES, JIAGE

Lot 2708
30.05.2023 10:30UTC +08:00
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HKD 11 265 000
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Lot 2708 | A PAIR OF IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI BOOKSHELVES, JIAGE
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HKD 8 000 000 – 12 000 000
A PAIR OF IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI BOOKSHELVES, JIAGE

17TH CENTURY

Each rectangular bookshelf is of pleasing proportion, the moulded, beaded square sections of the frame support three shelves, the top shelf with a high rail set with five cusped ornamental openings carved on both sides, the bottom shelf above a plain apron and shortspandrels.

68 1/2in. (173.9cm.) high, 40 3/4in. (103.3cm.) wide, 15 in. (38.5cm.) deep





Provenance

One of the pair:

The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Fine and Important Classical Chinese Furniture, Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 33

The other:

C.L. Ma, Hong Kong



Literature

One of the pair:

Selected Treasures of Chinese Art: Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. pl. 262

Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp. 108-109, no. 41

Yip Shing Yiu, ‘Collecting Ming Furniture of Huang Hua-Li Wood’, Arts of Asia, May-June 1991, p. 121, fig. 13

C. Evarts, ‘Best of the Best’ An Exhibition of Ming Furniture form Private Collections, Arts of Asia, May-June 1995, pp. 135-141, no. 8

Tian Jiaqing, ‘Early Qing Furniture in a Set of Qing Dynasty Court Paintings’, Orientations, January 1998, reprinted in Chinese Furniture: Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1999, p. 158, fig. 13









Exhibited

One of the pair:

Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990-1991

Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 20 September-24 November, 1991

Denver Art Museum, 1996-1999

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 18-26 November 1999



Both:

The Hong Kong Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 261, cat. no. 261

The Radiant Ming, 1368-1644 Through the Min Chiu Society Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, cat. pp. 282-283, no. 219



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