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~601 十七世紀 黃花梨有束腰帶托泥方櫈成對

A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR STOOLS 來源
嘉木堂，香港
17TH CENTURY 瑪麗·泰瑞莎·L·維勒泰 (1923-2015) 珍藏

Each soft mat seat is set within a rectangular frame with concave moldings, above a 文獻
narrow waist. The whole is raised on similarly molded legs of square section joined 伍嘉恩，《中國古典家具香港倫敦精選》，2001-2002，頁36-37，編號10
by base stretchers. 伍嘉恩，《明式家具二十年經眼錄》，北京，2010年，159頁

20¿ in. (51.1 cm.) high, 16Ω in. (41.9 cm.) wide, 17¡ in. (44.2 cm.) deep (2) 形制如此拍品之有束腰帶托泥方櫈非常罕見。其幾何造型簡練婉約，風格淳樸
敦厚，渾然天成。可參考Charlotte Horstmann藏一例紅木霸王棖方櫈，見安
$80,000-120,000 思遠(Robert H. Ellsworth)《中國家具：明清硬木實例》(Chinese Furniture:
Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties)，紐約，1971
PROVENANCE 年，197頁，圖版107號。

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

LITERATURE

Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Classic Furniture: Selections from Hong Kong & London
Gallery, 2001-2002, pp. 36-37, no. 10.
Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture. Beijing, 2010, p. 159.

Box-form stools, such as the present example, are extremely rare. The form is
distinguished by the simple elegance and refned geometry of its design. A related
hongmu example with ‘giant’s arm’s’ braces was in the Charlotte Horstmann
collection, illustrated in Robert Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of
the Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 197, pl. 107.

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