Live Auction 2553Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Parts I & II)
A HUANGHUALI WAISTED RECTANGULAR CORNER-LEG STOOL
Lot 1737

A HUANGHUALI WAISTED RECTANGULAR CORNER-LEG STOOL

17TH CENTURY

Closed23 March 2012

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A HUANGHUALI WAISTED RECTANGULAR CORNER-LEG STOOL
17TH CENTURY
With soft mat seat set within the rectangular frame with thumb-grooved edge above the narrow, plain waist and plain beaded aprons, all supported on slightly inward-curved, thick, beaded legs of square section joined by humpback stretchers and terminating in hoof feet
19½ in. (49.6 cm.) high, 19 1/8 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, 17 1/8 in. (43.3 cm.) deep

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

Specialist note

While the square corner-leg stool is a standard form found in classical Chinese furniture design, the addition of the slight bow in the legs of the present example makes it especially attractive. A related waisted rectangular stool, though with straight legs, is illustrated by Wang Shixiang et al. in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1990, no. A16.