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A HUANGHUALI THRONE-SHAPED MIRROR STAND Examples of larger five-panelled mirror stands similarly carved in
17th/ 18th century openwork, but with a further balustrade on the rectangular plinth,
The back in three sections, high in the centre flanked by two lower include one exhibited in Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian
curving panels, each with extending protruding crest rails terminating Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1982, no.46; two sold
in carved scroll leaves shapes, enclosing openwork panels with birds at Bonhams New York, the first, 19th October 1990, lot 538, and the
amidst a floral meander of leafy blossoms, railings on the sides and second, 19th and 20th March 2007, lot 318; and another, formerly
front, the centre left open, the platform set with six drawers, the in the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold
interiors of jichimu, carved on the front with floral scrolls. at Christie’s New York, 19th September 1996, lot 56. Two very fine
73cm (28 3/4in) high x 63cm (24 3/4in) wide x 37cm (14 1/2in) deep. (7). examples of this type, one held in the Palace Museum, Beijing, are
illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture:
£30,000 - 50,000 Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, pls.E31 and E32.
CNY270,000 - 450,000

十七/十八世紀 黃花梨花鳥紋鏡臺

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