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A JICHIMU TAPERED KANG CABINET, YUANJIAO KANGGUI, EARLY QING DYNASTY
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A JICHIMU TAPERED KANG CABINET, YUANJIAO KANGGUI, EARLY QING DYNASTY

China, 17th-18th century. The small cabinet made of jichimu ('chicken wing wood'), with characteristic attractive graining resembling bird feathers, and a rounded protruding rectangular top with 'ice-plate' edge supported on slightly splayed, rounded corner posts, beaded where they meet the side panels and doors, with rounded, molded frames and fitted with rectangular lock plates and pulls. The doors opening from the removable central stile to reveal two shelves and a pair of drawers with flower-blossom lock plates and oval pulls, all above a plain beaded apron and shaped stretchers.

Provenance: Christie’s New York, 26 March 2003, lot 129, sold for USD 10,158 or approx. EUR 16,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, acquired from the above. Dorothy Tapper Goldman (1945-2023) was an American professor, philanthropist, and major collector of American historical documents. She is perhaps best known for previously owning one of the original 14 copies of the U.S. Constitution, the proceeds for which she donated to various museums and historical societies. Her vast collection of art, antiques, and antiquities went far beyond printed Americana, however. Her career as a professor of architecture and interior design at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston brought her often to the city’s Museum of Fine Arts where, nurturing a lifelong love of museums and the arts, she became enamored by their incredible holdings of Chinese art. Eventually befriending the prominent art dealers Peter Rosenberg and Robert Ellsworth, she was encouraged to shape this admiration for Chinese art into a collection. Goldman’s Park Avenue penthouse brought together treasures spanning thousands of years of Chinese craftsmanship, from rare porcelains to classical furniture.
Condition: Good condition with only minor old wear, manufacturing irregularities, natural flaws, expected age cracks, small nicks to edges, some soiling to interior, the metalwork partly corroded, the back panel with a small fillet and a wax-filled patch.

Weight: 5.2 kg
Dimensions: Size 57.2 x 42.9 x 19 cm

Cabinets of this small size would have been used on a bed or kang in Northern China, and in the corridor of an alcove canopy bed in Southern China. The use of jichimu and long rectangular hardware point to Fujian province as the origin of this piece. Cabinets of this form were manufactured from the Ming Dynasty onwards. A typical feature of this form is to use the two doors to display the natural beauty and grain of the wood, which is superbly executed in the present lot.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related example illustrated by Tian Jiaqing, Chinese Classical Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, fig.103. A related jichimi cabinet of similar form with a shaped apron is illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Qing Dynasties, vol. II, 1990, Hong Kong, p. 150, no. D21.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 30
Price: USD 38,240 or approx. EUR 62,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A pair of Jichimu sloping-style Kang cabinets, Kanggui, 17th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form and material. Note the size (62.9 x 50.6 x 26.5 cm) and that this lot comprises a pair.

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