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Palazzo Borghese, Artena, Italy

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE 女爵藏品

70 Y
A RARE HUANGHUALI THRONE-SHAPED MIRROR-STAND, Prince Livio Borghese was an Italian diplomat from the end of the 19th
JINGTAI century until his death in 1939, serving in China as an Ambassador in
17th/18th century 1907, the Ottoman Empire and other European countries. It is likely
The back in three sections, high in the centre flanked by two lower that the present lot was acquired during his service in China. His elder
curving panels, each with extending protruding crest rails terminating brother Prince Scipione Borghese (1871-1927), 10th Prince of Sulmona,
in dragon heads, enclosing openwork panels with floral meander of was famous for winning the ‘Peking to Paris’ car race in 1907.
leafy blossoms, railings on the sides and front, the centre left open, the
platform set with six drawers behind two doors, carved on the front Mirror stands bearing a similar shape such as the present example
with floral scrolls. appear to have been inspired by the design of floor screens with fixed
79cm (31 1/8in) high x 59cm (23 1/4in) wide x 38.4cm (15in) deep. bases and inset panels. These stands were usually placed on the
dressing table of a Court lady. The mirror would have stood leaning
£15,000 - 20,000 against the middle panel and would have been held up with the
CNY130,000 - 180,000 detachable carved U-shaped support, while the drawers were used for
storage of cosmetics and ornaments.

十七/十八世紀 黃花梨寶座式鏡台 Examples of larger five-panelled mirror stands similarly carved in
openwork, but with a further balustrade on the rectangular plinth,
Provenance: Livio Borghese (1874-1939), 11th Prince of Sulmona, include one illustrated in Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian
Prince of Rossano, Prince of Vivaro, Prince of Montecompatri, Duke Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1982, no.46; and two
of Palombara, Duke of Poggio Nativo and Castelchiodato, head of the very fine examples of this type, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, are
House of Borghese, Italy, and thence by descent. illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture:
Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, pls.E31 and E32.
來源：意大利蘇爾莫納第十一任親王，羅薩諾親王，維瓦羅親王，蒙
泰孔帕特里親王，帕隆巴拉公爵，波其奧納蒂沃及卡斯特爾基奧達托 Compare with a related huanghuali throne-shaped mirror stand,
公爵，意大利博爾蓋塞眾議院議長，利維奧·博爾蓋塞（1874-1939） 17th/18th century, which was sold at Christie’s New York, 20-21
舊藏，並由後人保存迄今 March 2014, lot 2289.

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