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330 TP Y Corner-leg stools were popular during the Ming dynasty. They were
A HUANGHUALI WAISTED CORNER-LEG STOOL, FANGDENG highly stable and durable, with their apron and waist carved from a
17th/18th century single piece of wood. For a detailed discussion about the use of stools
The floating woven-bamboo panel top set into a mitre, mortise- during the Ming dynasty, see R.Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture
and-tenon frame with ‘ice-plate’ edge and one transverse stretcher in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, p.38 and Wang
underneath, all over a recessed waist and plain apron carved from one Shixang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing
piece of wood and mitred, mortised and tenoned to the legs joined by Dynasties, Vol.1, Hong Kong, 1990, pp.102-104.
hump-back stretchers ending in hoof-shaped feet.
49cm (19 2/8in) high x 43.5cm (17in) wide x 37.2cm (14 5/8in) deep Compare with a pair of related stools, 17th/18th century, illustrated
by Wang Shixang in Classic Chinese Furniture; Ming and Early Qing
£20,000 - 30,000 Dynasties, London, 1986, no.61. A related pair of stools, 17th century,
CNY170,000 - 260,000 was sold in our New York rooms, 12 September 2016, lot 6009; and
see also other related huanghuali stools, also 17th century, were sold
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨杌凳 at Sotheby’s London, 11 November 2015, lots 3 and 21.

Provenance: a French private collection

來源： 法國私人收藏

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