A FINE ZITAN LUOHAN BED, LUOHANCHUANG

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A FINE ZITAN LUOHAN BED, LUOHANCHUANG
17TH CENTURY

The powerfully proportioned bed with rectangular frame enclosing a soft-mat seat and with 'ice-plate' edge above an elegant concave waist and a wide convex apron, supported on bold C-form legs terminating in hoof feet, each plain side railing pieced from smaller strips and abutting either end of the undecorated back railing, all with rounded corners, the wood of rich color and finely figured grain
31in. (79cm.) high, 83in. (211cm.) wide, 41 3/4in. (106cm.) deep

Literature

Sarah Handler, "Comfort and Joy: A Couch Bed for Day and Night", JCCFS, Winter 1991, p. 15, figs. 16 and 16a
Wang et al., Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, p. 14, no. 7

Lot Essay

For a similar huanghuali bed with butterflied corners and beaded edge see Ward and Fidler, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, p. 346, lower left. This bed, formerly in the Charlotte Horstmann Collection, is also illustrated by Robert H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture, p. 145, no. 36

See the Eskenazi advertisement in Orientations, January 1992, for a luohan bed in jichimu, also with strongly curved legs