A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI STOOLS, FANGDENG

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A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI STOOLS, FANGDENG
17TH/18TH CENTURY

Each of drum form, the seat inlaid with a white marble plaque, raised on four bowed and pierced supports forming shaped open panels containing pairs of ruyi-form projections bound by a double band where they meet, raised on ruyi-head feet--20 3/4 in. (52.8cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A similar stool with huanghuali seat in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, was included in the exhibition, Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections, illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1982, Catalogue no. 86