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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE HUANGHUALI SIX-
POST CANOPY BED
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
well proportioned, the frame enclosing a soft-mat sleeping
surface surmounting a constricted waist carved with pairs
of confronting chilong divided by short bamboo-form struts,
above a shaped apron with stylised dragons striding amidst
foliate lingzhi scrolls, supported on four cabriole legs with
animal masks at the shoulders ending in claw-and-ball feet,
the six square section posts joined with five openwork panels
forming a latticework gallery, each panel comprising three
horizontal sections, the two front centre sections decorated
with a qilin in a landscape, the side and back centre with
sinuous dragons alternating with stylised shou medallions, all
between the top section with circular chilong roundels and the
lower frieze with curling chilong, the top rail reticulated with
similar chilong and shou characters, the posts joined at the top
by a canopy of corresponding form
226 by 156.2 by h. 226 cm, 89 by 61½ by h. 89 in.
PROVENANCE
Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, California.
Christie’s New York, 19th September 1996, lot 62.
LITERATURE
Wang Shixiang, ‘Jian yue ming lian [The beauty of minimalism.
Highlights from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in
California]’, National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art,
May 1993, no. 122, p. 9.
Wang Shixiang, ‘The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in
California’, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society,
Autumn 1993, p. 51.
Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the
Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San
Francisco, 1995, cat. no. 11.
Wang Shixiang, Mingshi jiaju yanjiu / Connoisseurship of
Chinese Furniture, Beijing, 2007, p. 399, no. 7.
◉ HK$ 20,000,000-30,000,000
US$ 2,580,000-3,870,000
明十七世紀
黃花梨六柱透雕螭龍瑞獸紋圍子架子床
來源：
中國古典家具博物館藏品，美國加州
紐約佳士得1996年9月19日，編號62
出版：
王世襄，〈簡．約．明．練—記美國加州中國古典家具
博物館館藏精品〉，《故宮文物月刊》，1993年5月，
第122期，頁9
王世襄，〈The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in
California〉，《中國古典家具學會季刊》，1993年秋，
頁51
王世襄及柯惕思，《中國古典家具博物館》，芝加哥及
三藩市，1995年，編號11
王世襄，《明式家具研究》，北京，2007年，頁399，
編號7