PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION A Rare Chinese Mixed Wood Tambour Front Dressing/Shaving StandCirca 1800 Of tall rectangular shape with side-hinged top opening to reveal circular openings for shaving bowl and beakers and a pull-up folding mirrored back, the carcass isprised of four uprights with floating panels at the sides and back, the sliding tambour front set between graduated drawers and with Chinese brass carrying handles to the sides. 32in (81.3cm) high; 19 1/2in (49.5cm) wide; 18 1/2in (47cm) deep 1900 年前後 多種木料拉門梳洗檯 Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, Fine Americana: The Carl L. Crossman China Trade Collection , 26-29 January 1977, lot 226 The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977-present Published: Kee Il Choi Jr., Guest Curator, The China Trade: Romance and Reality , De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979, p. 28 Exhibited: De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, June 22 – September 16, 1979. 出處： 蘇富比帕克-博内，《美國藝術精品：Carl L. Crossman 所藏中國外銷藝術》，1977 年一月 26-29 日，拍品第 226 號 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1977 年至今 出版記錄： Kee Il Choi Jr., 特邀策展人，《中國貿易：羅曼史與現實》，麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年，第 28 頁 展出記錄： 麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年 6 月 22 日至 9 月 16 日 In Kee Il Choi's important reference work, The China Trade: Romance and Reality , an exhibition organized by the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts in collaboration with The Museum of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, this shaving stand is illustrated alongside an informative footnote and a detail of the mitered corner joints and exposed mortise and tenon joints, the dovetail and the floating panel, standard devicesmonly applied in domestic Chinese furniture. Choi notes that the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director , 1762, includes such shaving tables or washing tables, a form that remained popular through the nineteenth century. For another very similar Chinese tambour-fronted dressing/shaving stand, see Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities , Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, UK, 1991, p. 238, Plate 126, that was imported to Providence, Rhode Island by Edward Dexter in 1805 and now housed in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. A simpler English or American mahogany square shaving stand can be found in the George Washington's Mount Vernon Museum, see Helen Maggs Fede, Washington Furniture at Mount Vernon , Mount Vernon, Virginia: Mount Vernon Ladies Association, 1966, pp. 24-25, no. 27.