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PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN
COLLECTION

142 W
A RARE AND MASSIVE SHANXI BAMBOO BOOKCASE Provenance
Qing Dynasty, late 18th or early 19th century Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 1997, lot 370
Comprising three inner shelves and one top shelf, the back with a The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1997-2022
latticework design centered by octagonal panels of angled lattice
bordered by square panels of T-fret lattice, the sides with octagonal 出處：
openings. 紐約蘇富比，1997 年 3 月 19 日，拍品第 370 號
69in (175.3cm) high; 51 1/4in (130.2cm) wide; 20 1/4in (51.4cm) 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1997-2022
deep
Whilst it is very rare to find dated pieces of Chinese domestic
$6,000 - 9,000 hardwood furniture, the same is not true of Chinese domestic
bamboo furniture. A surprisingly large number of Bamboo pieces
bear inscribed ink dates that generally fall into the late Qianlong
十八世紀晚期/十九世紀初期 山西竹書架 period. It is therefore possible to date with some confidence much of
the bamboo production on stylistic similarities to the late eighteenth
or early nineteenth century.

For a lengthy discussion of bamboo furniture, see an article by
Ronald Longsdorf, ‘Chinese Bamboo Furniture: Its History and
Influence on Hardwood Furniture’, Orientations, January 1994,
pp.76-83. See also Michel Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, New York,
1979, pp. 48-51.

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