19TH CENTURY

Details

A MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOL
19TH CENTURY
The red variegated marble top is set within a rounded frame with beaded edge, above shaped aprons and five outward-curved, reticulated legs framing conjoined scroll work. The whole is raised on short bracket feet.
21 ¼ in. (54cm.) high, 20 ½ in. (52.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Robert H. Ellsworth, New York.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Compare a related pair of marble-inset hongmu stools, formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 183. See, also, a single stool with a brown-viened stone top illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 194, no. 101, and currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

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