A Rare Huanghuali Flush-Sided Daybed, Ta

17TH CENTURY

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A Rare Huanghuali Flush-Sided Daybed, Ta
17th Century
Of elegant proportions and simianping (four-sides-flush) construction, the platform with soft cane seat set flush directly atop inward-curving square-section legs terminating in hoof feet, the wood of a warm golden honey tone
19in. (48.3cm.) high, 81in. (206cm.) wide, 26¾in. (68cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Compare the daybed with eight legs tenoned onto floor stretchers illustrated by Robert Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 80-81, fig. 21. See, also, a bench of similar construction sold in these rooms, 16 September 1999, lot 42.

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