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A LARGE ‘HUANGHUALI’ FOLDING MIRROR STAND
LATE MING DYNASTY
明末 黃花梨摺疊式大鏡架
the folding mirror stand set up to support a mirror or folded flat when not in use, the lattice panel divided into nine sections by stretchers of
various sizes joined together, above a shaped ledge to support a mirror or a book, all below protruding stylised cloud-shaped motifs carved
to each end of the top rail
35.5 by 40 by 39.7 cm, 14 by 15¾ by 15⅝ in.
EXHIBITED 展覽：
Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr S. Y. Yip 伍嘉恩，《禪椅琴凳：攻玉山房藏明式黃花梨家具》，香港中文大學文物
Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Art Museum, Chinese 館，香港，1998年，頁148-149
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 148-149. 《嘉木堂呈獻攻玉山房黃花梨精選》，香港會議展覽中心，香港，2012
Grace Wu Bruce presents a choice selection of Ming Furniture 年
from the Dr S. Y. Yip collections, Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 2012.
◉ HK$ 90,000-150,000
US$ 11,700-19,400
Mirror stands are small pieces of furniture on the dressing table for 鏡架，狀如帖架，是一種梳妝用具，亦可讀書。多作折叠式，宋代已流
supporting a mirror. Constructed like a lectern, it is also suitable 行，可在古代仕女畫中見到。
for reading manuscripts. This type of table-top furniture was
already seen in Song paintings. 此具黃花梨鏡架，在妝台上承放鏡子用。折叠式，可支起承鏡，不用時放
平。支架銅鏡的背板攢框造成，用不同長短的直材橫材分格成長方空隔，
搭腦兩端出頭，雕抽象雲紋。鏡架底部突出弧形托子，使之能用作鏡架或
書托。
50 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比
