A huanghuali round-corner cabinet, Late Ming dynasty | 明末 黃花梨面條櫃

The doors of this cabinet extend right to the base stretchers without any hidden compartments, making it the most basic form of a cabinet. According to Wang Shixiang, small-sized cabinets like this would have been used on a bed or kang in Northern China, and in the corridor of an alcove canopy bed in Southern China (Wang Shixiang, tr. Sarah Handler and the Author, Classic Chinese Furniture, London, 1985, p. 30).

A slightly smaller jichimu cabinet in similar form with a shaped apron is illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Qing Dynasties, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1990, no. D21; another similar round-corner cabinet was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29th May 2019, lot 3121.