明十七世紀 黃花梨一抽小悶桌

of rectangular section, the flat panel top of standed miter, mortise and tenon construction, supported on four square-sectioned legs, the shorter sides flanked with two pairs of lobed flanges below the panel, enclosing one drawer above a rectangular panel and a straight cusped apron, the drawer set with a metal lockplate, the wood of a warm reddish-brown colour transmuting to a lighter brown near the feet

Surviving examples of coffers usually have two or three drawers in a row, known as "lian er chu" and "lian san chu" respectively. Compare a similar single-drawer huanghuali and hongmu coffer with flanges carved in relief with stylised dragons from a private collection in Tianjin, illustrated in Dr. S.Y. Yip and Grace Wu-Bruce, Feast by a Wine Table Reclining on a Couch, Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, cat. no. 25.