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THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH

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A SET OF FOUR LARGE HUANGHUALI

SQUARE WAISTED CORNER-LEG STOOLS,

FANGDENG

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Each with attractively beaded and thumb-grooved frame above

a narrow plain waist and similarly grooved beaded aprons and

legs, framing thin aprons and spandrels carved in openwork as

simplified archaistic scroll.

19¬ in. (49.8 cm.) high, 24Ω in. (62.2 cm.) square (4)

HK$800,000-1,500,000 US$110,000-190,000

PROVENANCE:

C. P. FitzGerald (1902-1992) Collection, Canberra, Australia
The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, before 1971

LITERATURE:

R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming
and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 200, pls. 111 and
111a
A. Juliano, “Robert H. Ellsworth Treasures the East,” Architectural
Digest, October 1985, p. 106

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