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fig. 2 fig. 3
Illustration in Sancai tuhui [Assembled pictures of the three Illustration in Lu Ban jing [The treatise of Lu Ban], Ming dynasty
realms], Qi yong shier juan [Twelve volumes of useful objects], edition
Ming dynasty, Wanli period edition ྡɧ
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most important Chinese treasures’. Only five other jiaoyi with Chinese Furniture. Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, London, 1986,
damascened iron mounts appear to have been published. They are pl. 57. The remaining two have more elaborate carving on the
considered to be among the earliest examples of Ming jiaoyi and splat: one carved with a continuous floral scroll, preserved in the
would all have been made in the same workshop. Three of them, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (accession no. 68-1),
closely related to each other, are decorated with a double-dragon was included in the exhibition Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture
ruyi-cloud medallion carved on the upper section of the back splat: of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996,
one from the Qing Court collection and still in the Palace Museum, cat. no. 3; the other carved with a stylised dragon and shou character
Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the in the form of a ding tripod, formerly in the collection of the Royal
Palace Museum. Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, vol. 1, Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Museum of Classical Chinese
Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 14; another was sold in our New York rooms, Furniture, Renaissance, California, is illustrated in Wang Shixiang and
18th September 1996, lot 311, later in the collection of Ruth and Bruce Evarts Curtis, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese
Dayton and now in the Minneapolis Institute of Art (accession no. Furniture, San Francisco and Chicago, 1995, pl. 35, and was sold at
98.80.3), illustrated in Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Christie’s New York, 19th September 1996, lot 50. The relatively
Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, simple design of the present chair, with a plain but curvier back splat,
Minneapolis, 1999, cover image and pl. 11; the third, formerly in the is distinguished by its purity of form and gives a sense of refined
collection of Chen Mengjia, is illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Classic elegance and timelessness.

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