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A PAIR OF “HUANGHUALI’ SQUARE STOOLS
(FANGDENG)
LATE QING DYNASTY
each with a hardwood seat enclosed in the square mitered
frame, supported on four legs of square section, terminating
in hoof feet and joined by arched stretchers (2)
Height 19 ¾ in., 50.2 cm; Width 15 ¾ in., 40 cm;
Depth 15 ¾ in., 40 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Frederick T. Fuller.
Collection of Jack Faxon (1936-2020).

◉ $ 10,000-15,000

清末 黃花梨有束腰羅鍋棖方凳一對
來源
Frederick T. Fuller 收藏
Jack Faxon (1936-2020) 收藏

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE 220
COLLECTION
A LARGE ‘JUMU’ RECESSED-LEG PAINTING
TABLE (HUAZHUO)
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the top of standard miter, mortise and tenon construction,
enclosing a three-board floating panel supported underneath
by three dovetailed transverse stretchers, the edge of the
219 frame gently molded, the slightly splayed cylindrical legs
double tenoned into the top and cut to house the plain
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE LITERATURE spandreled apron, each pair of legs joined on the short side
COLLECTION
Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance by two oval-sectioned stretchers, plexiglass sheet (2)
A RARE ‘HONGMU’ SUGARCANE SQUEEZER with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Height 31⅞ in., 81 cm; Width 77¼ in., 196.2 cm;
QING DYNASTY Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, cat. no. 64. Depth 38¼ in., 97.2 cm
modeled as a rectangular bench with a sloping single-panel Compare a similar hongmu sugarcane squeezer in the PROVENANCE
top carved to one end with a channel and spout, supported collection of Wang Shixiang, illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Sotheby’s New York, 17th September 1998, lot 276.
below by a pair of splayed legs at each end conjoined by a Classic Chinese Furniture - Ming and Early Qing Dynasties,
stretcher, the legs at the lower end extending through the Hong Kong, 1986, pl. 173. ◉ $ 40,000-60,000
panel to form an A-frame fitted with an upper stretcher
and capped by a finial carved as a bundle of sugarcane, the ◉ $ 6,000-8,000
separately carved spatula-shaped lever inserts between the 清十八世紀 櫸木夾頭榫畫桌
upper stretcher and the panel to press the sugarcane when
in use (2) 清 紅木榨床 來源
Width 17¾ in., 45.2 cm 紐約蘇富比1998年9月17日，編號276
來源
PROVENANCE 攻玉山房收藏
Collection of Dr. S.Y. Yip. 紐約佳士得2002年9月20日，編號67
Christie’s New York, 20th September 2002, lot 67.
展覽
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. 香港中文大學文物館，1991年
National Heritage Board, Asian Civilisations Museum, 國家文物局，亞洲文明博物館，新加坡，1996至1999
Singapore, 1996-1999. 年
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1999. 當代藝術學會，倫敦，1999年

出版
伍嘉恩，《攻玉山房藏明式黃花梨家具：楮檀室夢 221
旅》，香港，1991年，編號64

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