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VARIOUS PROPERTIES PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN FAMILY
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A JICHIMU BRUSH POT A TIELIMU RECESSED-LEG TABLE The form of the present table, with its shaped aprons, elaborate spandrels,
18TH-19TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY mid-leg ‘barbed leaf’ carving and ruyi-form feet is a particularly archaic one,
derived from the open-panel box construction developed as early as the Tang
The brush pot is of waisted cylindrical form, with an The single-plank top is set with everted ends above a beaded apron and carved
dynasty. Several small wine tables with such features can be seen in the
attractively feathered grain. ruyi-form spandrels. The whole is raised on elegantly shaped legs carved at the
Song-dynasty painting album, Tianlai ge jiucang Songren huace, part of which
mid-section with double floral motif and terminating in stylized ruyi-feet, and
6¡ in. (15.8 cm.) high is illustrated in Wang Shixiang’s Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. I,
joined by pairs of stretchers.
Hong Kong, 1990, p. 55, fig. 2.20. An example in tielimu illustrated by Wang
$1,000-2,000 33q in. ( cm.) high, 50q in. ( cm.) wide, 12r in. ( cm.) deep Shixiang in ibid., vol. II, p. 78, no. B36, although both lack the everted ends.
PROVENANCE:
$8,000-12,000 A few extant examples of this form are known, including one at the
The Peony Collection, Hong Kong.
Nelson-Atkins Museum, illustrated by Roger Ward and Patricia Fidler in
PROVENANCE: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, New
LITERATURE:
Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, 15 April 1982.
R. Piccus, ed., Wood from the Scholar’s Table: Chinese
R. Piccus, ed., Wood from the Scholar’s Table: Chinese York, 1993, p. 342. For a huanghuali example with everted ends and very
Hardwood Carvings and Scholar’s Articles, Hong Kong,
Hardwood Carvings and Scholar’s Articles, Hong Kong, similar mid-leg ‘barbed-leaf’ carvings in the Royal Ontario Museum, see
1984, no. 21. R. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early
Ch’ing Dynasties, New Fairfield, Connecticut, 1970, no. 53.

清十八/十九世紀 雞翅木筆筒 私́歐洲家族珍藏
來源:
清十Ջˠ紀ǎ鐵梨木夾頭榫如意雲紋翹頭案
The Peony Collection, 香港
Ϝ源
出版:
安思遠
紐☼
年 月 日
R. Piccus編, 《Wood from the Scholar’s Table:
Chinese Hardwood Carvings and Scholar’s
Articles》, 香港, 1984年, 編號21

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A TIELIMU PERFUMIER AND A ZITAN ROOT
INCENSE HOLDER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
With a fitted cover on each end, the cylindrical
perfumier is carved with a scene of four figures in a
rocky landscape with pine trees. The incense holder
is worked to cleverly utilize the natural qualities of the
zitan root, and is suggestive of craggy rockwork with
stalks of bamboo to one side.
Perfumier: 5√ in. (14.9 cm.) high
Incense Holder: 4¬ in. (11.9 cm.) high (2)
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE:
The Peony Collection, Hong Kong.

清十八/十九世紀
紫檀樹根形香插及鐵梨木雕人物圖香筒
來源:
The Peony Collection, 香港

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