Live Auction 13751Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOL
Lot 952PROPERTY FROM THE NANCY AND ED ROSENTHAL COLLECTION

A MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOL

19TH CENTURY

Closed15 September 2017

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A MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOL
19TH CENTURY
The variegated grey marble top is set in a circular frame above shaped aprons and five outward-curved legs framing conjoined scrollwork. The whole is raised on short bracket feet.
21 ½ in. (54.6 cm.) high, 21 in. (53.4 cm.) diam.

Nicholas Grindley, London.

Specialist note

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-veined 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.