A RARE HUANGHUALI TRAVELLING CHEST 17TH CENTURY of upright rectangular section, supported on a flanged base with square-corner feet and a bracket-shaped apron with lipped edge extending into interlocking scrolls, the well-figured door panels set with rectangular baitong face-plates and handles and square hinges, opening to reveal a series of fourteen drawers of varied sizes surrounding a display alcove concealed behind two further doors, the drawers fitted with baitong lobed ring handles and the alcove embellished with an inner frame carved with foliate scrolls, all within a frame mounted with hinged square handles on the sides and a gently domed top, the tightly grained wood lustrously patinated 70 by 73 by 33 cm. 27 1/2 by 28 3/4 by 13 in.
A RARE HUANGHUALI TRAVELLING CHEST 17TH CENTURY of upright rectangular section, supported on a flanged base with square-corner feet and a bracket-shaped apron with lipped edge extending into interlocking scrolls, the well-figured door panels set with rectangular baitong face-plates and handles and square hinges, opening to reveal a series of fourteen drawers of varied sizes surrounding a display alcove concealed behind two further doors, the drawers fitted with baitong lobed ring handles and the alcove embellished with an inner frame carved with foliate scrolls, all within a frame mounted with hinged square handles on the sides and a gently domed top, the tightly grained wood lustrously patinated 70 by 73 by 33 cm. 27 1/2 by 28 3/4 by 13 in.
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