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A ‘HUANGHUALI’ LOW TABLE (KANGZHUO) PROPERTY FROM THE LIANG FAMILY COLLECTION
17TH CENTURY A FUR-LINED NAVY SILK FIRST-RANK CIVIL
a three-board floating panel top set into a beaded-edge OFFICIAL WINTER ROBE
frame of standard mortise and tenon construction, LATE QING DYNASTY
supported by a pair of transverse stretchers underneath,
the molded frame tapering to a recessed waist above a the satin-weave fabric dyed a deep midnight-blue, the front
lively cusped and barbed beaded-edge apron, cabriole legs and back each applied with a square embroidered ‘white
terminating in paw feet further raised on ball-form supports crane’ first-rank badge, the crane soaring amidst bats and
with claws carved in low relief ruyi-form clouds above a roiling sea, the interior lined with a
Height 10⅞ in., 27.6 cm; Width 31¾ in., 80.7 cm; light brown fur dappled white, the opening at the front of the
Depth 26 in., 66 cm robe with five floriform gilt-metal toggles and corresponding
235 silk loop closures
PROVENANCE Height 46½ in., 118.1 cm; Width across sleeves 72 in., 182.9 cm
Collection of Betty June Hardy (1924-2020).
PROVENANCE
◉ $ 10,000-15,000 Collection of Liang Dunyan (1857–1924), and thence by
descent.

$ 5,000-7,000
十七世紀 黃花梨有束腰壺門牙子虎爪足
炕桌
清末 石青色綢內襯皮一品補服
來源：
來源：
Betty June Hardy (1924-2020) 收藏
梁敦彦 (1857-1924) 收藏，此後家族傳承
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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN A LARGE RED-GROUND CUT VELVET AND
A PAIR OF ‘HUANGHUALI’ AND ‘HUALI’ METALLIC THREAD ‘LOTUS’ KANG COVER
YOKEBACK SIDECHAIRS (DENGGUAYI) QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY consisting of three joined panels of cut and uncut silk velvet,
the center decorated with a lotus blossom surrounded by
each with an undulating crest rail terminating in truncated three smaller blossoms on each side, all against a velvet
ends, set above a plain C-shaped rectangular backsplat and red background with meandering foliate scrolls in metal-
gently arched backposts, set into the molded frame securing wrapped thread, bordered by three consecutive bands of
a hard cane seat above a cusped apron in the front and plain geometric kuilong scroll, lotus scrolls, and wan-fret
spandreled aprons along the sides and back, the legs joined Length 143 in., 363.2 cm; Width 38 in., 96.5 cm
by stepped base stretchers and footrest (2)
Height 40 in., 101.6 cm; Width 19¾ in., 50.2 cm; Depth 16 in., PROVENANCE
40.6 cm
Acquired in 1995.
PROVENANCE A closely related example, similarly decorated against a
Collection of Florence (1886-1939) and Paul H. Benedict deep blue velvet background, in the Minneapolis Institute of 238
(1888-1968), acquired in China prior to the 1920s, and Art, Minneapolis (acc. no. 50.22), is published in Robert D.
thence by descent. Jacobsen, Ch’ing Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute
of Art, Minneapolis, 2002, vol. 2, pl. 543.
◉ $ 10,000-15,000
$ 20,000-30,000
清十八 / 十九世紀 黃花梨拼花梨木燈掛椅 清十八 / 十九世紀 紅地纏枝蓮紋漳絨炕毯
一對
來源：
236 來源： 購於1995年
Florence (1886-1939) 及 Paul H. Benedict (1888-1968) 伉
儷收藏，1920年代之前得於中國，此後家族傳承

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