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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
~963
A RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI CORNER-LEG STOOLS The present pair of stools is distinguished by the elegant cusped aprons,
17TH CENTURY sometimes referred to as ‘horse-belly’ aprons. A related pair of huanghuali
Each has a mat seat set in a rectangular frame above a narrow waist and stools of similar proportions with beaded ‘horse-belly’ aprons and legs,
elegantly shaped, beaded apron. The whole is raised on beaded legs of formerly in the collection of Alice Boney, is illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth,
square section terminating in hoof feet and joined by humpback stretchers. Classical Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing
Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 203, no. 115. See, also, another pair constructed
20º in. (51.4 cm.) high, 19º in. (49 cm.) wide, 16Ω in. (42 cm.) deep with plain ‘horse belly’ aprons and legs illustrated by R. Jacobson and N.
(2)
Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, p. 38,
$80,000-120,000 no. 2.
十七世紀 黃花梨羅鍋棖方凳一對
PROVENANCE
MD Flacks Ltd., New York, 2002.
LITERATURE
MD Flacks Ltd., Classical Chinese Furniture IV, Spring 2001, New York,
p. 10, no. 5.

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