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Treasures of the Palace Museum, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
(vol. 1), Hong Kong, 2002, no. 14. (Fig. 5) Further examples are in American
museum collections, including a single chair, also carved with a ruyi on the
back splat, in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and illustrated by R. Jacobsen
and N. Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in The Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, Chicago, 1999, pp. 56-57, no. 11 and another in the Nelson-Atkins,
Kansas City, illustrated by Nancy Berliner in Beyond the Screen: Chinese
Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Boston, 1996, p. 94-95, no. 3. Wang
Shixiang illustrates a huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, formerly
in the Chen Mengjia Collection, Beijing in Classic Chinese Furniture, pl. 57.
Another huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, ftted with an
elaborately carved and pierced splat, formerly in the collection of John
W. Gruber was sold at Christie’s New York, From Elegant Mansions: Fine
Classical Chinese Furniture and Works of Art, 16 September 1998, lot 32,
and subsequently sold at Poly Auction, Beijing, 8 December 2018, lot 5405
and achieved RMB27.370,000. (Fig. 6)

美國博物館另見兩例，一例藏明尼亞波利斯博物館，其靠背板亦飾如
意紋，見R. Jacobsen 及 N. Grindley著，《Classical Chinese Furniture in The
Minneapolis Institute of Arts》，芝加哥，1999年，編號11，頁56-57；一例藏肯
薩斯城納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館，見Nancy Berliner 著，《Beyond the
Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries》，波士頓，1996年，編
號 3，頁94-95。
王世襄著《明式家具珍賞》亦收錄陳夢家舊藏一黃花梨圓後背交椅，圖
版57。

另見John W. Gruber 舊藏一黃花梨圓後背交椅，靠背板有鏤空及雕刻紋
飾，紐約佳士得 Elegant Mansions: Fine Classical Chinese Furniture and Works
of Art 專拍，1998年9月16日，拍品32號，
2018年12月8日再於北京保利拍賣，拍品5405號，並以人民幣27,370,000元成
交 。（圖六）

(above right) (right)
Fig. 5 A huanghuali Fig. 6 A huanghuali folding
folding chair. The Palace chair, sold at Christie’s
Museum/ Image copyright New York, From Elegant
© The Palace Museum, Mansions: Fine Classical
Photographer: Feng Hui. Chinese Furniture
and Works of Art, 16
圖五 明 黃花梨如意雲頭紋 September 1998, lot 32.
交椅 北京故宮博物院
圖片提供：北京故宮博物院 圖六 紐約佳士得 Elegant
馮輝攝 Mansions: Fine Classical
Chinese Furniture and Works
of Art 專場，1998年9月16日，
拍品32號

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