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L A C Q U E R • J A D E • B R O N Z E • I N K T H E R V I N G C O L L E C T I O N 髹金飾玉 - 歐雲伉儷珍藏

~1215 A VERY RARE DALI-INSET HUANGHUALI MELON-FORM STOOL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

The variegated marble top set in the fve-part circular frame above the The present melon-form stool is among six known stools of this design,
lobed barrel-form sides, the whole raised on fve ruyi-form feet four of which have been published. Of these four stools, three are inset
16º in. (41.3 cm.) high, 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam. with wood panels, including the pair illustrated by Robert Jacobsen and
Nicholas Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute
$15,000-25,000
of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999, pp. 44-5, pl. 5, and the single
stool, formerly in the Gustav Ecke Collection, illustrated by Ecke in Chinese
PROVENANCE
The Collection of Alice Boney, New York. Domestic Furniture, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, p. 141, pl. 112. The present
Johnstone-Fong, Inc., Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 1991. stool is the only published example inset with a marble top.
The Irving Collection, no. 1023.
清十八/十九世紀 黃花梨嵌大理石面坐墩
LITERATURE
Robert H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming
and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1971, p. 195, pl. 104.

As published by Robert Ellsworth. Courtesy of Andy Hei.

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