AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF LONGQUAN CELADON GARDEN STOOLS

MING DYNASTY

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF LONGQUAN CELADON GARDEN STOOLS
Ming Dynasty
Each of barrel form, the openwork sides carved in imitation of bundled reeds or cane forming interlocking circles, bordered above and below by narrow bands of detached florettes, the lower and upper body carved with lotus scroll and the top carved with a shaped diaper panel as if draped with a cloth, covered overall in a glaze of sea-green tone
15½ and 15¼in. (39.4 and 38.7cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

This pair of unusual stools is made in imitation of stools formed from bundles of rushes that were tied together in interlocking rings. For a discussion of how rush stools were constructed see Nancy Berliner, the Catalogue for the exhibition, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996, p. 96, the entry for no. 4, a marble stool also made in imitation of rush prototypes

See, also, a single celadon stool similar to the present example illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 33, fig. 2.8