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A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR CORNER-LEG
STOOLS, CHANGFANGDENG
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Each mat seat is set within a rectangular frame above a narrow waist The present pair of stools is distinguished by the elegant, cusped
and cusped apron, the whole is supported on legs of square section aprons, sometimes referred to as 'horse-belly' aprons. A related pair
joined by humpback stretchers and terminating in hoof feet. of huanghuali stools of similar proportions with beaded 'horse-belly'
aprons, formerly in the collection of Alice Boney, is illustrated by
20¡ in. (51.8 cm.) high, 20Ω in. (52.1 cm.) wide, 15æ in. (40 cm.) deep (2)
R. H. Ellsworth, Classical Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples
of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 203, no.
$60,000-80,000
115, and another pair constructed with plain 'horse-belly' aprons is
illustrated by R. Jacobsen and N. Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture
PROVENANCE:
Barling of Mount Street Ltd., London, 1992. in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, p. 38, no. 2. A pair of 17th-century
huanghuali stools with beaded, cusped aprons illustrated in MD
Flacks Ltd., Classical Chinese Furniture IV, Spring 2001, New York, p.
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨有束腰羅鍋棖長方凳一對
10, no. 5, was later sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2018, lot
963.