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~645 十七世紀 紫檀天平架

A VERY RARE LARGE ZITAN BALANCE STAND

17TH CENTURY 來源
The protruding top rail is supported on vertical posts joined by a stretcher ftted with 嘉木堂，香港
narrow openwork panels above shaped corner spandrels. The posts are fanked by 瑪麗·泰瑞莎·L·維勒泰 (1923-2015) 珍藏
standing spandrels and ftted into thick humped feet joined by a single drawer.
文獻
30¿ in. (76.5 cm.) high, 27Ω in. (69.9 cm.) wide, 13º in. (33.5 cm.) deep 嘉木堂，《明式家具二十年經眼錄》，北京，2010年，278頁

$70,000-90,000 本天平架碩大雄渾，用料上乘，色澤黝黑，沉穆雅靜，造工精良。兩依藏有一件
十七世紀至十八世紀初紫檀天平架，尺寸比本架略小，見柯惕思(Curtis Evarts)
PROVENANCE 《兩依藏》，卷三，香港，2007年，160頁。

Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

LITERATURE

Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p. 278.

The present balance stand is distinguished by its large proportions and the superior
quality of the dark zitan. A slightly smaller zitan balance stand, dated to the late
17th-early 18th century, is in the Liang Yi Collection and published by Curtis Evarts
in Liang Yi Collection, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 2007, p. 160.

(alternate view)

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