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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH COLLECTOR
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A PAIR OF RECTANGULAR HUANGHUALI STOOLS, CHANGFANGDENG
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

Each stool has a frame top enclosing a soft mat seat, supported on gently tapered
square-form legs terminating in hoof feet and joined by plain aprons and humpback
stretchers.
22 in. (56 cm.) wide x 19Ω in. (49.5 cm.) deep x 20Ω in. (52 cm.) high

(2)

£40,000-60,000 $52,000-77,000
€46,000-69,000

PROVENANCE

With Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.

The slightly inward-curved legs seen on the current stools are a variation of the
standard classic form with straight legs. Compare the present lot with two stools
formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in California which were sold
at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 104, and illustrated in Wang, et al.,
Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, San Francisco and
Chicago, 1995, p. 36, no. 17. See also, Sarah Handler’s article, “The Ubiquitous Stool”,
JCCFS, Summer 1994, p. 15, fgs. 19 and 19a.

明十七世紀 黃花梨束腰長方凳一對
來源: 香港古董商嘉木堂Grace Wu; 英國重要私人珍藏

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