Lot 33
33
A LONGQUAN CELADON BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN STOOL, ZUODUN

Details
A LONGQUAN CELADON BARREL-SHAPED GARDEN STOOL, ZUODUN
15TH CENTURY

The central panel boldly carved with four cartouches, each containing a flowering peony rising from the ground, separated vertically by curved bands of diaper pattern and a single cash motif, all between raised bosses in the form of five-petaled flowers and bands of floral scroll above and below, the top incised with a trellis pattern
14½in. (36.9cm.) high, 12¾in. (32.5cm.) diam.
Literature
Sarah Handler, "The Ubiquitous Stool", JCCFS, Summer 1994, p. 20, fig. 26

Lot Essay

Compare the stool illustrated in the Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, 1959,
no. 100

Refer to Handler, "The Ubiquitous Stool", JCCFS, Summer 1994, where she points out that on the present example, the cartouches are separated by bands which simulate the vertical members of a wooden stool