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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CHICAGO COLLECTION 芝加哥私人珍藏 ANOTHER PROPERTY
783 清十八世紀 鐵梨木嵌綠紋石圈椅一對 ~784
A PAIR OF GREEN-MARBLE-INSET TIELIMU HORSESHOE-BACK 來源: A HUANGHUALI SQUARE-CORNER KANG CABINET 十七世紀 黃花梨方角炕櫃
ARMCHAIRS James Tigerman (1951-2004) 珍藏, 芝加哥, 伊利諾州, 1996年 17TH CENTURY 來源:
18TH CENTURY The attractively-grained single-panel doors opening to reveal a shelved 馬科斯·弗拉克斯, 紐約
Carved in imitation of bamboo furniture, each chair has a composite C-form interior and drawers at top and bottom above a plain stretcher and aprons. The Daniel Shapiro 珍藏, 紐約
back splat set with a variegated green marble roundel above a plain panel and cabinet is fitted with baitong metal hardware. 展覽:
openwork apron, and supports the gently curving arms which terminate in 30æ in. (78.1 cm.) high, 27æ in. (70.5 cm.) wide, 15æ in. (40 cm.) deep
outswept hooks. The mat seat is set in a rectangular frame above plain aprons 紐約, 馬科斯·弗拉克斯, 1997年３-4月
and spandrels. The whole is raised on round-section legs and is joined by 出版:
straight stretchers on the sides and back and a footrest at the front. $40,000-60,000 馬科斯·弗拉克斯, 《Classical Chinese Furniture I》, 1997年春, 紐約, 頁27, 編
36º in. (92.1 cm.) high, 26Ω in. (67.3 cm.) wide, 23º in. (59.1 cm.) deep (2) PROVENANCE: 號13
M. D. Flacks Ltd., New York.
$12,000-18,000 The collection of Daniel Shapiro, New York.
EXHIBITED:
PROVENANCE:
James Tigerman (1951-2004) Collection, Chicago, Illinois, 1996. New York, M. D. Flacks, March-April 1997.
LITERATURE:
Examples of this design, with the articulated nodes, are seen in huanghuali M. D. Flacks, Classical Chinese Furniture I, Spring 1997, New York, p. 27, no. 13.
and various hardwoods. An almost identical set of four in huanghuali with
an openwork roundel above the plain huamu burl panels is in the William
Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and illustrated in R.
H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early
Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1970, p. 125, no. 16. An almost identical single
huanghuali chair to the set of four in Kansas City, Missouri, formerly of the
Reverend Richard Fabian Collection, is illustrated in Classical Chinese Wood
Furniture, San Francisco, 1992, p. 23. Another related huanghuali continuous
horseshoe-back armchair with simulated “bamboo” members is in the
Honolulu Museum of Art and illustrated in R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Hardwood
Furniture in Hawaiian Collections, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1982, p. 57, pl. 37.
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