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拍品专文
The current pair of stools are fashioned from thick timbers that are strong in both construction and appearance. There are two transverse braces on the underside with an additional rectangular support in the center. It is suggested by Sarah Handler in Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 2001, p.91, that the stools with this overbuilding construction feature are an early hardwood pieces copying even earlier softwood construction.
Compare to two pairs of huanghuali stools of the same form and also have the curved transverse braces with wood bridge on the underside, one formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 15, the other formerly in the Wang Shixiang collection, now in the Shanghai Museum collection, see Wang Shixiang, Mingshi jiaju zhenshang, Hong Kong, 1985, p. 58.
Compare to two pairs of huanghuali stools of the same form and also have the curved transverse braces with wood bridge on the underside, one formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 15, the other formerly in the Wang Shixiang collection, now in the Shanghai Museum collection, see Wang Shixiang, Mingshi jiaju zhenshang, Hong Kong, 1985, p. 58.