A RARE HUANGHUALI WAISTED DAYBED, TA

Details

A RARE HUANGHUALI WAISTED DAYBED, TA
LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

The soft-mat seat enclosed by the rectangular frame with 'ice-plate' edge above a straight waist supported on sturdy, beaded cabriole legs terminating in cloud-form feet and joined by a curvilinear apron carved with delicate lingzhi-shaped clouds and trailing cloud scrolls at the shoulders
21 1/8in. (53.6cm.) high, 87 1/8in. (221.3cm.) wide, 38 3/4in. (98.5cm.) deep

Literature

Sarah Handler, "Life on a Platform", JCCFS, Autumn 1993, p. 17, fig. 26
Wang et al., Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, p.8, no. 4

Lot Essay

This appears to be extremely rare, the only other cabriole-leg daybed known being the folding example in the Palace Museum illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, p. 127, C4