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Fan-shaped stools were made to complement round dining tables. It is 扇形凳乃為圓桌而設計，兩者形狀相稱，自成一體，然而明代遺留至今的成
particularly rare to find a surviving pair of this, especially those made 對扇形杌則極為難覓。各類杌凳，包括扇形杌均可見於明初《百美圖》，詳
from huanghuali. Stools of various shapes, including fan-shape, are
illustrated in the early Qing dynasty album Bai Mei tu, see Wang Shixiang, 見王世襄著，《明代家具研究》，第一冊，香港，1990年，頁32。關於清代貴胄
Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, 日常家具生活中的杌凳形狀及用途，可見吳美鳳著，《盛清家具形制流變研
Volume I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 32. For a further discussion on the shape 究》，北京，2005年，頁312 。
and utilization in the domestic life of the Chinese upper-class in the Qing
dynasty, see Wu Meifeng, Shengqing Jiaju Xingzhi liubian yanjiu (Research 侶明室藏有一對造型更方，且作竹節設計的杌凳，來自明十六世紀末至十
on the evolution of Qing dynasty furniture shapes), Beijing, 2005, p. 312.
七世紀初，著錄於伍嘉恩著，《侶明室家具圖集》，香港，2000年，頁78-9，
A pair of stools of rectangular shape but of bamboo-inspired design, 圖版13號。另一來自Robert and William Drummond舊藏竹節設計方凳著
dated to the late 16th-early 17th century, in the Lu Ming Shi collection 錄於伍嘉恩著，《Chinese Domestic Furniture》，拉特蘭、佛蒙特州和東
is illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce, Living with Ming – The Lu Ming Shi 京，1962年，頁97，圖版77。
Collection, 2000, pp. 78.-9, pl. 13. A very similar stool also inspired
by bamboo design but of square shape from the Robert and William
Drummond Collection is illustrated by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic
Furniture, Rutland and Tokyo, 1962, p. 97, fig. 77.

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