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~2807 P R O V E N AN C E
Peter Lai Antiques, Hong Kong.
Judd C. Kinne Collection, Singapore.
A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI Nicholas Grindley LLC, London, 1998.
‘CABRIOLE-LEG’ DAYBED, TA E XH IB I T E D
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, on loan from 2007-2014.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, on loan from 2014-
The mat seat is enclosed within the wide rectangular frame carved 2019.
with moulded edge and supported on a narrow waist, all above
elegantly curved aprons. The whole is supported on thick cabriole legs LI T E R A T U RE
resting on very small chucks. Peter Lai and Sandra Lai, Classical Chinese Furniture: A Legacy of
20 1/4 in. (52 cm) high, 83 1/2 in. (212 cm) wide, Refinement, Hong Kong, 1992, p.18.
44 7/8 in. (114 cm.) deep Sarah Handler, "Life on a Platform", JCCFS, 1993, p. 15, pls. 22
&22A.
HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture,
US$200,000-320,000 Berkeley, 2001, p. 118, pl. 8.16.
30 RICH GOLDEN HUES AND GRACEFUL FORMS