A HUANGHUALI AND WUMU FOOTREST AND ROLLERS, GUNDENG

17TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI AND WUMU FOOTREST AND ROLLERS, GUNDENG
17th century
The huanghuali footrest with wumu rollers, the wide rectangular top divided by a central stretcher, set on either side with three cylindrical rollers, above a short waist and plain rounded apron supported on a short, stout legs terminating in hoof feet
7in. (17.7cm.) high, 30 1/3in. (77cm.) wide, 11in. (28cm.) deep

出版

Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 148-149, cat. 59.

展覽

Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 20 September-24 November, 1991.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 18-26 November, 1999.
Phoenix Art Museum, 1996-1999.

拍品專文

Although Chinese chairs are traditionally fitted with a footrest stretcher, a separate footstool was more comfortable, and in furniture arrangements, the placement of a single footstool often distinguished the highest ranked person. The beneficial use of the foot stool was described by Wen Zhenheng during the late Ming period, "Moving the feet back and forth over the rollers excites the vital energies (jingqi) to bubble upward like a fountain."

Compare a smaller huanghuali example with four rollers now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (R.D. Jacobsen, Catalogue, pp. 174-175, cat. 62), sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September, 1996, lot 27.