LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Details

A Tielimu Rectangular Meditation Stool, Chanchuang
Late 16th-early 17th century
The soft cane seat within a rectangular frame with 'ice-plate' edge raised on a narrow waist supported on square-section legs decorated at the corners with carved ruyi patterns, the legs terminating in hoof feet and joined by beaded aprons and humpback stretchers
19½in. (49.6cm.) high, 41½in. (105cm.) wide, 27 5/8in. (70cm.) deep

Literature

Classical and Vernacular Chinese Furniture in the Living Environment, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 104-5, no. 4.

Sale room notice

Compare this lot to a stool illustrated by G. Ecke in Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, pl. 5, no. 4.

Lot Essay

Compare a huanghuali meditation platform from the Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection sold in these rooms, 18 September 1997, lot 57. Compare, also, the examples in Wang Shixiang and C. Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, San Francisco and Chicago, 1995, nos. 2 and 4; and G. W. Bruce, Dreams of the Chu Tan Chamber and the Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, p. 134.

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