PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION A Chinese Hongmu Chest of DrawersCirca 1760 With an overall attractive dark tonality to the wood, supported on bracket feet, the chest with four large drawers with Chinese brass handles and keyholes, all below a brushing slide and a molded edge top. 32 1/2in (82.6cm) high; 33in (83.9cm) wide; 18in (45.7cm) deep; brushing slide extends 11 1/2in (29.2cm) 十八世紀 紅木斗櫃 Provenance: Avon Antiques, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, UK, October 1984 The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984-present Exhibited: Peabody Museum, Salem Massachusetts (now the Peabody Essex Museum), Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection , 1986-1988 出處： Avon Antiques, Bradford-on-Avon, 英國 Wiltshire, 1984 年十月 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1984 年至今 展出記錄： 麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》，1986-1988 For an English Mahogany chest of drawers of similar form, see Sotheby's, London, The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 27 March 2021, lot 254, dated to the George III period (circa 1770) and also fitted with a brushing slide above the drawers. See also another similar export chest sold at Christie's, London, 23 May 2013, lot 30; and a late eighteenth century Chinese huali secretaire chest of similar outline sold at Christie's, London, 27 November 2002, lot 623.