Live Auction 2297Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
A HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY BED, JIAZICHUANG
Lot 1226PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 

A HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY BED, JIAZICHUANG

18TH CENTURY

Closed26 March 2010

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USD 362,500

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A HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY BED, JIAZICHUANG
18TH CENTURY
The openwork top formed by a latticework of wan emblems repeated on the upper portion of the frame above chi dragon spandrels and stepped stretchers, the soft mat seat set within the thick, rectangular frame and enclosed by further wan latticework beneath chi dragon roundels, all above a narrow waist and attractively shaped aprons carved in high relief with chi dragons confronted around a ruyi head at the center, the design repeated at the top of the elegantly curved legs, which terminate in scroll-form feet
88 7/8 in. (225.7 cm.) high, 85 in. (216 cm.) wide, 55 in. (139.7 cm.) deep

Grace Wu Bruce, 1997.

Specialist note

A similar six-poster huanghuali canopy bed in the collection of the Palace Museum, also featuring a design of wan emblems on the lower rails, is illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 135, no. C17. However, it is interesting to note that the present bed is more elaborate in the carving on the aprons, legs and spandrels.