18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF MINIATURE 'DRAGON' ZITAN COMPOUND CABINETS AND HATCHESTS
18TH-19TH CENTURY
27 ½ in. (69.9 cm.) high, 17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm.) wide, 6 ¾ in. (17.1 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Skinner's, 22 October 2005, lot 918.

Conditions of sale

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Rufus Chen (陳嘉安) Head of Sale, AVP, Specialist

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Descriptif du lot

Richly carved with dynamic five-clawed dragons against a dense landscape of swirling clouds, the present pair could have been arranged on a large kang platforms similar to the miniature display shelves in Yang Xin Dian (The Hall of Mental Cultivation), photographed in situ in Daily Life in the Forbidden City: The Qing dynasty, 1644-1912, Hong Kong, 1988, pp. 126-127, pl. 172. A pair of massive zitan ‘dragon’ compound cabinets and hatchests were sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2017, lot 962.

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