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~1204 A PAIR OF MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOLS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Each with variegated grey marble top set in a circular frame above Compare a related pair of marble-inset hongmu stools, formerly in the
shaped aprons and fve outward-curved legs framing conjoined Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, sold at Christie’s, New York, 18 March
scrollwork, all raised on short bracket feet. 2015, lot 183. See, also, a single stool with a brown-veined stone top
illustrated by Robert H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high, 19.5 (49.5 cm.) diam. (2)
Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1971,
$25,000-35,000
p. 194, no. 101, and currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri.
PROVENANCE
The Irving Collection, no. 1007.
清十九世紀 紅木嵌大理石面坐墩一對

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