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PROPERTY FROM THE NANCY AND ED ROSENTHAL COLLECTION

                              ~952
                                  A MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOL

                                     19TH CENTURY
                                      The variegated grey marble top is set in a circular frame above shaped aprons and fve outward-curved
                                      legs framing conjoined scrollwork. The whole is raised on short bracket feet.
                                      21Ω in. (54.6 cm.) high, 21 in. (53.4 cm.) diam.
                                      $8,000-12,000

                                                          PROVENANCE

                                      Nicholas Grindley, London.
                                      Compare a related pair of marble-inset hongmu stools, formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection,
                                      sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 183. See, also, a single stool with a brown-veined stone
                                      top illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing
                                      Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 194, no. 101, and currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
                                      City, Missouri.
                                  清十九世紀 紅木嵌石面坐墩

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