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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
~1149 The platform bed, or ta, with its simple and restrained lines, represents one
of the very few forms to be preserved in classical Chinese furniture design.
A RARE HUANGHUALI DAYBED 十ˑˠ紀ǎ黃花梨有束腰馬蹄足榻 By the Ming dynasty, platforms with four legs in various sizes had come into
17TH CENTURY Ϝ源 favour replacing earlier box-construction platforms. The present lot has a
19¿ in. (48.6 cm.) high, 75q in. (191.8 cm.) wide, 39¿ in. (99.4 cm.) deep 盧芹齋
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年 月 日 bold and simple design, with restrained lines and no relief decoration that
fashioned from thick pieces of finely grained wood.
$400,000-600,000
Daybeds with hoof feet and without stretchers are exceptionally rare. A
PROVENANCE: citable example is the wooden model mentioned by Wang Zhengshu in
C. T. Loo, New York, 17 July 1959. his article, ‘Conjectures on Models of Ming-Period Furniture from the Pan
Yunzheng Tomb in Shanghai’, Beyond the Screen, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, 1996, pp. 77-83, and illustrated by N. Berliner, op. cit., p. 150, no.
30b. A smaller huanghuali flush-corner leg daybed was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 30 November 2020, lot 2808. An important huanghuali daybed,
of more robust proportions, and illustrated by G. Ecke in Chinese Domestic
Furniture, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, pl. 19, no. 15, was sold at
Classical Chinese Furniture from Heveningham Hall; Christie’s Hong Kong, Woodblock print from
28 May 2021, lot 2803. Linchuan simeng, late
Ming dynasty
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