17TH CENTURY

細節

A HUANGHUAL LUOHAN BED WITH OPENWORK RAILINGS, LUOHANCHUANG
17TH CENTURY
The soft-mat seat set within a thick, rectangular frame with convex edge supported on round legs joined by low base stretchers, the legs flanked by uprights enclosing rectangular latticework, all suggestive of bamboo furniture, the back railing with a central rectangular panel divided into three sections, each with a beaded cartouche-shaped opening, connected to the frame members and seat by short struts, the side railings with similarly carved panels
31 in. (79 cm.) high, 82½ in. (209.6 cm.) wide, 49 in. (124.5 cm.) deep

來源

Important Chinese Furniture: Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection; Christie's, New York, 16 September 1996, lot 91.

出版

S. Handler, "Comfort and Joy: A Couch Bed for Day and Night", JCCFS, Winter 1991, p. 18, fig. 20
Wang Shixiang and C. Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 12, no. 6

拍品專文

A zitan and softwood bed of similar design with 'twisted rope' and 'begonia'-shaped apertures, formerly in the collection of Wang Shixiang, and now in the Shanghai Museum, is illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 133, C13. The same bed is also illustrated by Wang in Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 186-7, no. 125. See, also, the jichimu example from the Robert and William Drummond Collection illustrated by George N. Kates, Chinese Household Furniture, New York, 1962, no. 70. A hongmu example is in Hong Kong in the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection.

Refer to R. W. Longsdorf, "Chinese Bamboo Furniture, Its Influence on Hardwood Furniture Design", Orientations, January 1994, pp. 76-83, where the author discusses the features of bamboo furniture carried over to hardwood forms, such as rounded members, 'wrap-around' stretchers, 'stacked' stretchers and the use of closely-placed vertical struts.