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A MAGNIFICENT HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY
BED, JIAZICHUANG
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular bed frame is with a soft-mat seat set above a high waist and decorated with
bamboo-form struts dividing panels carved with birds and beasts among flower branches.
The curvilinear apron is carved in low relief with stylised scrolls and confronted chi dragons,
supported on cabriole legs with animal-masks at the shoulder and terminating in claw-and-
ball-feet. The four corner posts and two front posts are joined with horizontal openwork
panels of three sections forming a lattice-work gallery. The lower pierced with stylised
dragons, the middle reticulated with compound ruyi blooms and floral designs with chilong
roundels, and the upper carved with begonia roundels, all below a top rail and canopy
reticulated with birds and flower branches flanked by entwined chi dragons among scrolls.
91 in. (231 cm.) high, 88 ⅜ in (225.5 cm.) wide; 61 Ω in. (156.1 cm.) deep

HK$5,000,000-8,000,000 US$650,000-1,000,000
PROVENANCE
Chan Shing Kee, Hong Kong, April 2015
The Heveningham Hall Collection

清十八世紀 黃花梨四合如意團螭紋圍子六柱架子床
來源
陳勝記，香港，2015 年 4 月
赫維寧漢莊園珍藏

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