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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE 明末十六至十七世紀 黃花梨羅漢床
COLLECTION
展覽：
AN OUTSTANDING HUANGHUALI COUCH-
BED, LUOHAN CHUANG 《風華再現：明清家具特展》，歷史博物館，台
北，1999年，頁107
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH – 17TH
CENTURY 出版：
伍嘉恩，《中國古典家具》，香港，1995年，圖版21
of superb quality, the rectangular seat frame of standard
mitre, mortoise and tenon construction, supported on a
straight, constricted waist exquisitely carved with bamboo-
form dividers on the sides and at the corners, depicting on
the long front three rectangular cartouches enclosing a pair
of chilongs confronting stylised cloud scrolls, between a pair
of archaistic phoenix, the short sides each with a further pair
of chilongs, the reverse with three abstract begonia-shaped
panels, all above a wide, beaded, curvilinear apron carved with
interlocking lingzhi scrolls, foliate tendrils and ruyi-shaped
corners, mitred, mortise and tennoned into and half-lapped
onto four thick square-sectioned cabriole legs terminating
in scrolled feet, the back and arms each of standard mitre,
mortoise and tenon construction, the side panels each gently
curved and finishing with a shaped spandrel carved with an
archaistic kui dragon medallion in openwork
78.5 by 199 by 95.3 cm, 30⅞ by 78⅜ by 37½ in.
EXHIBITED
Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing
Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1999, p. 107.
LITERATURE
Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Classical Furniture, Hong Kong, 1995,
pl. 21.
HK$ 10,000,000-15,000,000
US$ 1,280,000-1,920,000

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