LATE MING DYNASTY-EARLY QING DYNASTY

Details

A MARBLE-INSET HUANGHUALI FOOT STOOL
LATE MING DYNASTY-EARLY QING DYNASTY
The top is of mitre, mortise and tenon construction with a marble centre supported by three transverse stretchers below, two with exposed tenons. The edge of the frame is carved with a groove and moulds downwards and inwards to a narrow flat band and moulds in again to form a recessed waist. There are exposed tenons on the short sides of the frame. The beaded-edged, curvilinear aprons carved with leaves and scrolling tendrils in high relief are mortised and tenoned into and halflapped onto the legs, which are doublelock tenon to the top and terminate in outward flaring feet, carved with three leaves.
24 ½ in. (62.3 cm.) wide, 11 13⁄16 in. (30 cm.) deep, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 2002
The MQJ Collection, Hong Kong

Literature

Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p. 172
Grace Wu, The Best of the Best- The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture- vol. 2, Beijing, 2017, pp. 300-301
Grace Wu, Three Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2024, p. 170

Exhibited

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Best of the Best- The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture, 29 September-2 October 2017
Christie’s Hong Kong, A Special Exhibition of the MQJ Collection, 11-15 October 2024

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Lot Essay

This foot stool of standard Ming design is constructed in an unusual manner in that the waist is part of the frame, rather than a separate piece or as part of the apron. The exposed tenons of the underneath stretchers are veneered with huanghuali strips to conceal the dark end grains of the tenons, also a not often seen feature.

This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.

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