19TH CENTURY

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A Pair of Marble-Top Hongmu Drumstools, Yuandeng
19th Century
The top with a marble panel set into the circular frame with edge studded with large 'nail-head' bosses, supported on four out-curved legs joined at top and base by shaped aprons between the conforming openwork sides of double molded quadrilobed members, the foot ring repeating the band of 'nail-head' bosses above pad feet
19¾in. (50.2cm.) high, 19in. (48.2cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

A similar pair of slightly more squat proportions with plain frame edge and foot ring dated to the 17th century in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1970, pp. 194 and 259, cat. no. 101. Stools of this type of a later date, as with the present lot, are more upright and attenuated.

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