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Fine and Rare Pair of Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) Round-Corner, Tapered Cabinets, Yuanjiaogui probably Huanghuali, each having a rounded, protruding cushion-form molded top mounted to slightly splayed rounded corner posts exhibiting mitred, mortise-and-tenon frame construction, the doors with wood-pin hinges and floating panels contained within a mitred-and-cushion molded frame, and separated by a cushion-form center stile and mounted with baitong brass hardware, both retaining their original locks and keys, the interiors fitted with a shelf above a pair of side-by-side drawers and repainted in the 20th century. h. 70-1/2", w. 40-1/2", d. 21-1/2" Provenance: Provenance: Dr. Eugene Lindsay Opie, New York, New York; by descent in the family to the present owner. Notes: “I believe there will be universal agreement… that Opie combined the scientific disciplines of epidemiology, pathology, clinical medicine and public health in a manner that had never been accomplished before.” – Esmond R. Long DIABETES The Journal of the American Diabetes Association Nov.-Dec. 1958 Volume 7, No. 6, pp 496-499 Dr. Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873-1971) was born in Virginia, but the family soon relocated to Baltimore where his father was one of the founders and the eventual Dean of Faculty, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The younger Opie attended Johns Hopkins University, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1893 and graduating in the University’s inaugural medical class in 1897. It was while still a student that he first identified the lesions of the islands of Langerhans of the pancreas in a diabetic patient; he published his first paper on the subject the following year and his research was utilized by doctors in the field for decades. He served as an Associate of Pathology on the staff of Johns Hopkins for several years, before accepting a position at the newly founded Rockefeller University in 1904; he was to maintain his association with this institution for almost 70 years. Dr. Opie was not only one of the pioneering researchers in the study of diabetes, but also served on the faculty of numerous prestigious medical institutions including Washington University, St. Louis; University of Pennsylvania; Cornell University; and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China – through its association with Rockefeller University, where he led a research project studying the spread of tuberculosis through the Chinese populace. It is believed that while in Beijing, Dr. Opie acquired the handsome and rare pair of Yuanjiaogui cabinets offered here.