A HUANGHUALI CLOTHES RACK WITH TRELLIS PATTERN PANEL, YIJIA

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI CLOTHES RACK WITH TRELLIS PATTERN PANEL, YIJIA
Late 16th/early 17th century
The two slender, rounded posts flanked by pairs of lingzhi spandrels and joined by a toprail terminating in upward-curving lingzhi fungus and shaped corner spandrels, framing two horizontal stretchers enclosing a geometric pattern lattice, above a beaded apron with short, pierced lingzhi fungus-shaped spandrels, the base panel of two horizontal stretchers holding three openwork inset panels, above a beaded apron and lingzhi-shape short spandrels echoing those above, all set on two solid inverted U-shaped feet
63¾in. (162cm.) high, 55¾in. (141.5cm.) wide, 13in. (33.5cm.) deep

Literature

Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, London, 1986, pl. 166.
Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp. 138-139, cat. 55.
Wang Shixiang, "Additional Examples of Classical Chinese Furniture," Orientations 23:1, January 1992, pp. 40-50, fig. 12.
The Chinese Collections, Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore, 1997, nos. 118-120, 122.

Exhibited

Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 20 September-24 November, 1991.
Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Washington D.C., 1999-2001.
National Heritage Board, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 1996-1999.

Lot Essay

Compare a similar clothes rack but with "cracked-ice" latticework now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (R.D. Jacobsen, Catalogue, pp. 152-153, cat. 66), sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September, 1996, lot 58.

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