MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH CENTURY-EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR WAISTED STOOLS, CHANGFANGDENG
MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH CENTURY-EARLY 17TH CENTURY
20 1⁄8in. (51cm.) high, 22in. (56cm.) wide, 18½in. (47cm.) deep

Provenance

The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Renaissance, California
Sold at Christie’s New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 9

Literature

Wang Shixiang, ‘Jianyue Minglian’ (The Beauty of Ming Furniture), National Palace Museum Periodicals, May 1993, no. 122, P. 5
Wang Shixiang, ‘’The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in California’, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1993, p. 47, no. 2
Sarah Handler, ‘The Ubiquitous Stool’, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Summer 1994, p. 14, fig. 17
Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, pp. 34-35, no. 16 ( fig.1)

Exhibited

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, on loan from 1997 to 2021

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Although waisted stools with horse-hoof feet are common, the current pair of huanghuali stools are distinguished for its elegant proportion with inward-curved legs. Wang Shixiang wrote in Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 34, that the current pair 'will always rank among the best examples of these basic forms'.
Compare to an example in the Beijing Central Academy of Arts and Crafts with a smaller seat frame and straighter, thinner legs, illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, San Francisco, 1986, p. 61, no. 15.

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