17TH CENTURY

Round-cornered cabinets are usually splayed and have round-edged tops that protrude beyond the side posts. The present cabinet is no exception to this standard. One of similar proportions and form, and of slightly larger size (148 cm. high), dated to the 17th century, in the collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, 1999, pp. 150-51, no. 52, where the authors note that "round-corner, sloping style cabinets, yuanjiaogui, were made in sizes ranging from those suitable for table tops to more imposing storage furniture over seven feet in height."