PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION An Important large Chinese Huanghuali and Huali two-section Bureau BookcaseCirca 1750 Supported on scroll bracket feet, the lower section in the form of a chest of drawers with hinged fall-front with pull-out supports and enclosing a fitted interior with various sized drawers, one inked with Chinese number characters, one horizontal shelf and eight pigeon-holes with Chinese-form apron details, all above four graduated large drawers each with two highly-decorative Chinese paktong ( baitong ) handle plates with swan-neck handles, also mirrored in the paktong carrying handles to the sides, the upper section with two later mirrored doors with rocaille paktong key-plates at the center and further paktong carrying handles to the side, opening to reveal two drawers and three shelves, all below a simple cornice. 72 1/2in (184.2cm) high; 42 3/4in (108.6cm) wide; 22 1/8in (57cm) deep 十八世紀 黃花梨與花梨雙層寫字櫃暨白銅原配件 Provenance: Thomas McBride, Litchfield, CT, October 1988 The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988-present Published: Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities , Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, UK, 1991, p. 227, Color Plate 79 出處： 康州利奇菲爾得 Thomas McBride，1988 年十月 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1988 年至今 出版記錄： Carl L. Crossman, 《中國貿易與裝飾藝術：繪畫、傢俱、異國珍奇》，骨董藏家俱樂部，英國薩福克郡，1991 年，第 227 頁，彩版 79 In Carl L. Crossman, op. cit ., p. 227, col. pl. 79, the bureau is illustrated with Chinese and Indian silver of the early 19th century from the Milhender Collection. The Indian silver now forms part of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts silver collection. See a pair of huanghauli and padouk wood bureau cabinets, with solid-timber upper cupboard doors rather than the mirrors of ours sold at Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, 21 October 2020, lot January 2020, lot 169.