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The current pair of stools are fashioned from thick timbers 本對長方凳素牙子起邊線，牙頭點綴小委角。足材外圓里方，
that are strong in both construction and appearance. There
are two transverse braces on the underside with an additional 同起邊線。直棖正面一根，側邊兩根。整體結構簡練，風格淳
rectangular support in the center. It is suggested by Sarah 樸，渾厚耐看。
Handler in Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture,
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 2001, p.91, that the 比較美國加州中國古典家具博物館舊藏一對相似長方凳，
stools with this overbuilding construction feature are an early
hardwood pieces copying even earlier softwood construction. 後拍賣於紐約佳士得，1996年9月19日，拍品15號（圖一）。
另比較上海博物館藏一對，見王世襄著《明式家具珍賞》，香
Compare to two pairs of huanghuali stools of the same form 港，1985年，58頁（圖二）。值得注意，兩對長方凳及本拍品
and also have the curved transverse braces withwood bridge
on the underside, one formerly in the Museum of Classical 凳盤背面均設兩根橫帶，並於中間以橋型木方連成一體。
Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September
1996, lot 15 (fig.1), the other formerly in the Wang Shixiang
collection, now in the Shanghai Museum collection, see Wang
Shixiang, Mingshi jiaju zhenshang, Hong Kong, 1985, p. 58
(fig.2).

fig. 1 The Museum of Classical Furniture Collection, sold at Christie’s New York,
19 September 1996, lot 15
圖一 美國加州中國古典家具博物館藏品，拍賣於紐約佳士得，1996年9月19日，拍品15號

fig. 2 Collection of the Shanghai Museum
圖二 上海博物館藏品

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