A HUANGHUALI MIRROR STAND, JINGTAI

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

细节

A HUANGHUALI MIRROR STAND, JINGTAI
Late 16th/early 17th century
The tall center panel flanked by two lower panels, leading to two even lower side panels, all panels finely carved in openwork with birds and flowers and surmounted by curving toprails terminating in dragon heads, the center toprail with a flaming bird balanced at midpoint, all above the platform fronted with two panels of stylized chi dragons on either side of the center opening and above the two rows of drawers carved with prunus and with vase shaped-pulls, the low cabriole legs joined by a shaped apron carved with interlocking tendrils
27in. (69.1cm.) high, 19¾in. (50.3cm.) long, 11¾in. (30cm.) deep

出版

Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp. 160-161, cat. 67.
Yip Shing Yiu, "Collecting Ming Furniture of Huang Hua-Li Wood," Arts of Asia XXI:3 (May-June 1991), p. 121, fig. 15.

展览

Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 20 September-24 November, 1991.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 18-24 November, 1999.
National Heritage Board, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 1996-1999.

拍品专文

Compare a slightly larger mirror stand with an additional set of railings and a central panel of a boy riding a qilin, sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September, 1996, lot 56. Compare, also, the elaborate mirror stands in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, illustrated by Robert H. Ellsworth in Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections, Honolulu, 1982, p. 64, no. 46, and in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, R.D. Jacobsen, Catalogue, pp. 178-181, no. 64.