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150 Y
A RARE CHINESE HUALI DOUBLE ‘VASE SPLAT’ CORNER
CHAIR
18th Century 展出記錄：
with curved crest rail and flattened out-scrolling arms, the back with 麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》
two vase-shaped splats dividing three turned spindles above a solid ，1986-1988
panel shaped seat with plain apron above a central cabriole leg with 麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年 6 月 22 日至 9 月 16 日
a shell at the knee with acanthus to the sides and pendant leafy
drops below, the leg ending in a slender four-toed claw and ball foot 此轉角椅本為一對，另一只現為皮博迪博物館典藏品。
and turned-spindle X-shaped stretchers joining the three slender
cylindrical ‘back’ legs. In Kee Il Choi’s important reference work, The China Trade: Romance
34in (86.4cm) high; 21 1/4in (54cm) wide; 22in (53.3cm) deep and Reality, an exhibition organized by the De Cordova Museum,
Lincoln, Massachusetts in collaboration with The Museum of the
$6,000 - 8,000 American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, this chair is illustrated
alongside an informative footnote and a diagram of the joint between
十八世紀 花梨雙瓶形背轉角椅 the back uprights and the seat which are joined by an inter-locking
pegged splice joint reinforced with iron ties. The inner front corners
Provenance are lined with curved wooden braces and the inner corners are
Ed Hardy, San Francisco, March 1984 secured with angle blocks. The construction of this elaborate joint is
The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, a typically Chinese one and Choi references line drawings in Gustave
1984-present Ecke’s, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo,
1962, p. 154, no’s 22 a & b.
Published
Kee Il Choi Jr., Guest Curator, The China Trade: Romance and Importantly we should also consider a rare zitan George III style
Reality, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979, p. 21 corner armchair sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 18 January 1996,
lot 243, which rather crucially, assuming the wood identification is
Exhibited correct, demonstrates that scarce and expensive woods, normally
Peabody Museum, Salem Massachusetts (now the Peabody Essex assigned to the imperial workshops, were being used on items for
Museum), Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection, export to the West. The use of an X-form stretcher in our chair is to
1986-1988 help support the heavy weight of the dense wood used.
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, June 22 – September
16, 1979 For a George II, English prototype of similar form, with double-
splat backs dividing turned spindles and shell-craved seat rail, see
This chair is one of a pair, the other is owned by the Peabody Essex Bonhams, London, Fine English Furniture, 21 November 2012, lot
Museum. 40, which appears to be related to other chairs bearing the label
of the famed cabinet maker Giles Grendey (1693-1780). Another
出處： is illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked
舊金山 Ed Hardy，1994 年四月 London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 242, pl. 434.
麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1994 年至今

出版記錄：
Kee Il Choi Jr., 特邀策展人，《中國貿易：羅曼史與現實》，麻州林
肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年，第 21 頁

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