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A RARE PAIR OF LARGE JICHIMU The present pair of stools is notable for their 方凳成對，攢框裝軟屜，邊抹混面，採用
geometrical form and the simplicity of their
STOOLS, CHANGFANGDENG 「垛邊」的造法，羅鍋棖用裹腿做。邊抹腿
17th/18th century design. Stools constructed in this shape could 足皆為圓材，或為仿竹製傢俱之效果。
Each stool with a soft-mat seat set within a have soft and hard-mat seats; they were
wide frame with double cushion-moulding made with and without stretchers, and with or 杌凳是明清時期極為常見的坐具，也被認為
simulating bamboo, supported on thick without carved surfaces. 是中國最早的坐具形式之一。造型小巧、
cylindrical legs joined by wrap-around 質量輕便，十分適合室內外各類場合；詳
humpback stretchers, supported underneath Stools were amongst the most common 見S.Handler著，《Austere Luminosity of
by a bowed stretcher. forms of seating during the Ming and Qing Chinese Classical Furniture》，柏克萊，2001
58.7cm (23in) high x 61cm (24in) wide x dynasties, serving only a slightly less formal 年，頁82-102頁。本例羅鍋棖採用裹腿工
54cm (21 2/8in) deep. (2). function than chairs. Stools were employed 藝，製作考究；垛邊的造法增加了邊抹的厚
in China since a very early date, and could be 度，既加固了穩定性，又在與裹腿相呼應的
£30,000 - 50,000 easily adapted to various indoor and outdoor 同時避免了厚重之感，整體輕盈而精巧。
settings, as discussed by S.Handler, Austere

CNY270,000 - 450,000 Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, 參考一件十七世紀黃花梨方凳，見王世襄
Berkeley and London, 2001, pp.82-102. 著，《明式家具研究》，卷二，香港，2016
十七/十八世紀 鸂鶒木直足裹腿長方凳成對 年，頁19，編號A3。另有一對十七世紀黃花
A huanghuali stool related to the present 梨長方凳，售於紐約佳士得，2013年3月21
Provenance: example, 17th century, is illustrated by 日，拍品編號925，可資比對。
Barbara Giordana, Paris Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese
An important European private collection Furniture, vol.2, Hong Kong, 2016, p.19,
no.A3 and vol.1, pp.27-31. Compare with a
來源： pair of related huanghuali stools, 17th century,
巴黎Barbara Giordana舊藏 which was sold at Christie’s New York, 21
歐洲重要私人收藏 March 2013, lot 925.

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