A magnificent and very rare pair of huanghuali cabinets, with display shelf and exposed tenons, (Lianggegui) Late Ming dynasty, 17th / 18th Century each accented by superbly grained single-board floating panels forming the sides and doors, secured within thick raised frames edged with recessive rounded lobing and beading, set on baitong rectangular hinges with matching lockplate and pulls and a central post equally finely lobed, all below a spectacular display shelf framed by cusped and lobed upper aprons on three sides, each finely carved with archaistic bands, foliate scrolls and T-form hooks in thick beading, both on the interior and exterior of the aprons, all above reticulated rails with 'lotus bud' finials to the vertical posts and pierced panels of single-horned qilong or tianlu frolicking amidst zoomorphic qilong scrolls, above a lobed and cusped beaded apron, with further matching aprons between the feet accented by fierce zoomorphic feline dragon-heads within the thick beading, the interior divided into two shelves by a pair of drawers, with a distinctive feature of exposed tenons projecting from the sides at all the complex joins at the top, center, and bottom of the internal space 75 5/8 by 38 1/2 by 19 in., 192 by 97.8 by 48.2 cm
A magnificent and very rare pair of huanghuali cabinets, with display shelf and exposed tenons, (Lianggegui) Late Ming dynasty, 17th / 18th Century each accented by superbly grained single-board floating panels forming the sides and doors, secured within thick raised frames edged with recessive rounded lobing and beading, set on baitong rectangular hinges with matching lockplate and pulls and a central post equally finely lobed, all below a spectacular display shelf framed by cusped and lobed upper aprons on three sides, each finely carved with archaistic bands, foliate scrolls and T-form hooks in thick beading, both on the interior and exterior of the aprons, all above reticulated rails with 'lotus bud' finials to the vertical posts and pierced panels of single-horned qilong or tianlu frolicking amidst zoomorphic qilong scrolls, above a lobed and cusped beaded apron, with further matching aprons between the feet accented by fierce zoomorphic feline dragon-heads within the thick beading, the interior divided into two shelves by a pair of drawers, with a distinctive feature of exposed tenons projecting from the sides at all the complex joins at the top, center, and bottom of the internal space 75 5/8 by 38 1/2 by 19 in., 192 by 97.8 by 48.2 cm
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