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The present folding chair, with its elegantly curved splat, cut to emphasize the striking grain, and
beautifully carved with a ruyi at top, is most similar in proportion and design to one formerly in the Lu
Ming Shi Collection, exhibited at the Palace Museum, Beijing and illustrated in Ming Furniture in the
Forbidden City, Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 170-173, where it is dated the 16th-17th century, and this chair was
subsequently sold at China Guardian Auction, Beijing, 22 November 2014, lot 5010. (Fig. 4)
Of the surviving examples dating to the Ming dynasty, the majority are found in prominent museum
collections, while a few remain in private hands. A huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, dated
to the Ming dynasty, with C-curved splat and ruyi medallion, but with more elaborate metalwork on the
arms and footrest, is in the Palace Museum collections and is illustrated in The Complete Collection of

稀世珍品

此交椅之靠背板線條優美，紋理清晰，靠背板 存世明代交椅主要由博物館收藏，私人珍藏屈 (above)
上刻如意頭壽字紋，典雅別致。侶明室舊藏一 指可數。北京故宮博物院藏一明代黃花梨交 Fig. 4 A huanghuali
folding chair, 16th-17th
例，斷代為明十六至十七世紀，尺寸及形制皆與 椅，弧形靠背板飾如意紋，扶手及腳踏上金屬 century, from Lu Ming Shi
Collection and exhibited
本椅相近，曾於北京故宮博物院展出，並收錄 構件紋飾較考究，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品 at the Palace Museum,
Beijing.
於《永恆的明式家具》，香港，2006年，頁170-173 全集：明清家具》，2002年，編號14。（圖五） Image courtesy of
，2014年11月22日並於中國嘉德拍賣，拍品5010 Grace Wu Bruce.
號。（圖四） 圖四 十六-十七世紀
黃花梨交椅
侶明室珍藏，並曾於
北京故宮博物院展出
圖片提供：嘉木堂

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