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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MARYLAND
~872
A RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR WAISTED
STOOLS, CHANGFANGDENG
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Each stool has a soft mat seat set within a rectangular frame with beaded The corner-leg stool is a standard form found in classic Chinese furniture.
edge, above a narrow waist and plain, beaded aprons. The whole is supported The present stools feature an elegant inward-curved leg, an attractive and
on slightly inward-curved, thick, beaded legs of square section joined by appealing deviation from the standard design. A huanghuali rectangular
humpback stretchers and terminating in hoof feet. waisted stool, of comparable size, and with curved legs, dated to late
16th-early 17th century, and formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese
20º in. (51.3 cm.) high, 19æ in. (51 cm.) wide, 18¡ in. (46.6 cm.) deep
(2) Furniture, is illustrated in Wang et al, Masterpieces from the Museum of
Classical Chinese Furniture, San Francisco and Chicago, 1995, p. 34, no. 16.
$100,000-150,000
A pair of huanghuali stools, of similar proportion, but with more elongated
curved legs is illustrated by G. Wu Bruce in The Best of the Best: The MQJ
Collection of Ming Furniture, vol.2, Hong Kong, 2017, p. 278-279. See, also, a
third pair sold at Christie’s London, 8 November 2016, lot 201.
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨方凳一對

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