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Property From An Important PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION
~792
~790
New York Collection A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR STOOLS A HUANGHUALI SIDE TABLE The spare, economic lines of the recessed-leg table makes this form one of
the most elegant furniture forms. The basic proportions were adapted to make
17TH-18TH CENTURY
18TH CENTURY
Each single-panel top is set in a rectangular frame above plain The single-panel top is set in a rectangular frame above the plain aprons large painting tables, smaller tables, benches and stools. This form is referred
aprons and spandrels. The whole is raised on round-section and spandrels. The whole is raised on round-section legs joined by pairs of to in the Classic of Lu Ban as a 'character one' table due to its similarity in
legs and joined by a stretcher at the front and back and pairs of stretchers at the sides. profile to the single horizontal stroke of the Chinese character for 'one'.
紐約重要私人珍藏黃花梨家具 stretchers at the sides. 31 in. (78.7 cm.) high, 51æ in. (131.4 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48.3 cm.) deep Throughout the Ming period, recessed-leg tables are seen in woodblock
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high, 16º in. (41.3 cm.) wide, 12¡ in. (31.4 cm.) prints and paintings, often adorned with antiques and placed within a variety
deep (2) $70,000-90,000 of interiors, including the scholar's studio. A huanghuali recessed-leg table,
dated to the seventeenth century, is illustrated by R. D. Jacobsen and N.
$20,000-30,000 PROVENANCE: Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Christie's New York, 3 June 1993, lot 96. Minneapolis, 1999, p. 123, no. 40. Another table of similar form, but longer in
PROVENANCE: length was sold at Christie’s New York, 23-24 September 2021, lot 998.
Christie's New York, 2 December 1986, lot 400. 重要紐約私人珍藏
E & J Frankel, New York, 1 February 1987.
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨夾頭榫平頭案
A pair of huanghuali rectangular stools of similar construction 來源:
was sold at Christie’s New York, 18-19 March 2021, lot 823. 紐約佳士得, 1993年6月3日, 拍品編號96
Another pair of huanghuali rectangular stools, with splayed
legs and plain apron and spandrels, is illustrated by Wang and
Evarts in Masterpieces From the Museum of Classical Chinese
Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 32, pl. 15.

重要紐約私人珍藏
清十八世紀 黃花梨方凳一對
來源:
紐約佳士得, 1986年12月2日, 拍品編號400
E & J Frankel, 紐約, 1987年2月1日

790 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION
~791
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI LAMPHANGER SIDE
CHAIRS
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Each S-shaped plain backsplat supports a curved crestrail
above the mat seat set in a rectangular frame above a humpback
stretcher fitted with vertical struts. The whole is raised on
square-section legs joined by stepped stretchers and a footrest
at the front.
43Ω in. (110 cm.) high, 19¬ in. (49.8 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.8 cm.)
deep (2)
$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
Property from an Ohio Collector; Sotheby's New York, 24 April
1987, lot 466.
EXHIBITED:
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Collects Oriental
Art, no. 178.
The presence of humpback stretchers and struts below the
seat on the present pair is an elegant variant from the more
commonly seen plain apron and spandrels. A huanghuali side
chair, constructed with humpback stretchers and vertical struts
below these at with a C-form plain back splat, is illustrated
by R. H. Ellsworth in Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian
Collections, Honolulu, 1982, p. 57, pl. 36,where it is dated to the
17th century.

重要紐約私人珍藏
十七十八世紀 黃花梨燈掛椅一對
791 來源:
俄亥俄州私人珍藏; 紐約蘇富比, 1987年4月24日, 拍品編號466
展覽:
辛辛那提, 辛辛那提美術館, 「Cincinnati Collects Oriental Art」,
編號178

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