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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK CITY
COLLECTION COLLECTION
1138 ~ⱷ1140
A SMALL ZITAN CYLINDRICAL BRUSH A SMALL RARE BOXWOOD,
POT HUANGHUALI, JICHIMU, TIELIMU AND
18TH-19TH CENTURY WUMU PARQUETRY ZITAN CHEST
18TH CENTURY
5w in. (14.8 cm) high
8¬ in. (22 cm.) high, 7q in. (19 cm.) wide, 5º in.
$4,000-6,000 (13.2 cm.) deep
$20,000-30,000
重要美४珍藏
清十Ջ 十̏ˠ紀ǎ紫檀小筆筒 PROVENANCE:
M. D. Flacks, Ltd., New York.
LITERATURE:
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN M. Flacks, Classical Chinese Furniture III: Woods of
COLLECTION
China, New York, Autumn 1998, p. 35, no. 18.
~1139 M. Flacks, Custodians of the Scholar's Way:
Chinese Scholars' Objects in Precious Woods,
A ZITAN, JICHIMU, AND BOXWOOD
London, 2014, p. 372.
PARQUETRY HUANGHUALI TRAY (another view)
18TH CENTURY The parquetry design seen on the doors of the
present chest is an example of the cross cultural
11æ in. (29.8 cm.) wide
exchange between Europe and China during
the Qing dynasty. Parquetry, and the related
$8,000-12,000
technique marquetry, was a European practice
seen in furniture from the 18th century, whereby
PROVENANCE:
woods of contrasting color and grain were mixed
M. D. Flacks, Ltd., New York, 2 December 2006.
to create complex geometric patterns and floral
This refined parquetry tray is an example of the designs or landscape scenes. A parquetry-
high-quality scholar’s objects produced in the embellished zitan corner-leg table dated to the
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1138 mid-Qing period. This sense of refinement is late 18 -19 century, inlaid in a geometric pattern
due to the choice and execution of the design with zitan, huanghuali, and nanmu, was sold at
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