A HUANGHUALI SQUARE MEDITATION PLATFORM, CHANCHUANG

LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A HUANGHUALI SQUARE MEDITATION PLATFORM, CHANCHUANG
Late 17th/Early 18th Century
The soft-mat seat within a square frame with double rounded edge encircling the round legs joined by a single rounded "leg-encircling" high stretcher set with pairs of round-section decorative ovals
19¾in. (50cm.) high, 31 5/8in. (80cm.) square

Literature

Curtis Evarts, ''Classical Chinese Furniture in the Piccus Collection'', JCCFS, Autumn 1992, p. 10, fig. 9

Lot Essay

Compare the square stool with leg-encircling stretchers and decorative oval struts illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, p. 21, no. A11

The continuous stretcher around the circular-section legs with decorative oval struts shows the influence of bamboo furniture. For a discussion of bamboo furniture in hardwood forms see Ronald Longsdorf, "Chinese Bamboo Furniture, Its History and Influence on Hardwood Furniture Design", Orientations, January 1994, pp. 76-83