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Property from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds
Lot 8163

A pair of fine cinnabar lacquer cabinets
19th century

Chinese, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art and Paintings
28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A pair of fine cinnabar lacquer cabinets

19th century
Each cabinet with two doors divided by a central post, each door delicately carved with a scene of scholars admiring a landscape of pines and mountains within a geometric frame and key-fret borders, above a drawer carved each carved with a scene of a traveling scholar and his attendant within a lobed cartouche flanked by lotus meander above an apron similarly carved with lotus scroll, the sides and top of each cabinet similarly carved with geometric floral ground and raised key-fret edges and each cabinet opening to reveal two drawers also lacquered and incised with geometric design, the interiors and removable backs lacquered black.
17 1/2in x 14 1/8 x 6 1/2in (47 x 36 x 16.5cm), each cabinet

Footnotes

十九世紀 剔紅仕人山水紋櫃一對

Provenance
The Monterey Museum of Art

Small and finely carved cabinets such as the present lot would have been placed upon a kang for storage of small, treasured pieces from a collection. The scholarly scenes would have facilitated relaxation and retreat from daily cares, and enhanced the enjoyment of viewing the treasures kept inside.

Although often produced in pairs, it is less common for a pair of such cabinets to survive so long. However a single cabinet carved with scholarly scenes sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2012, sale N08834, lot 191, and another single cabinet carved with dragons sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, sale 2726, lot 1637. A slightly larger pair of two-door cabinets carved with scholar's objects is illustrated in The Complete Collection or Treasures of the Palace Museum: Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, no. 65, and a single four-door cabinet dated to the 18th century is illustrated in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors: Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2013, no. 172.

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