A HUANGHUALI SIX-POSTER CANOPY BED, JIAZICHUANG
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
明末/清初 黃花梨六柱架子床

17TH CENTURY

細節
黃花梨木製。架子床構件均為方截面,線條硬朗。床面四角立柱,正面兩根門柱,上承頂架,角柱及門柱下端的「蘑菇頭」,仿傳統建築中的「柱礎」造型。床頂四周掛簷,縧環板開炮仗洞。床圍子攢鬥技法拼接回紋,床面格角榫攢邊裝軟屜。牙條與腿足以抱肩榫結構結合,內翻馬蹄收束。

六柱床一般雕工講究,多作嫁娶奩具,屬閨閣之用。明文震亨著《長物志》卷八「臥室」論:「一般設臥榻一、榻前僅置一小几,几上不設一物;設小方杌二,小櫥一;室中清潔雅素,一涉絢麗,便如閨閣中,非幽人眠雲夢月所宜」。明代《魯班木經匠家鏡》載有木版畫描繪仕女站於六柱架子床旁的情景(圖一)。

美國明尼阿波利斯藝術學院藏一件大小、雕飾與本床相若的黃花梨床,見1979年紐約出版M. Beurdeley著《Chinese Furniture》,圖112。二床的雕工細節如出一轍,
可能出自同一或關聯的作坊;唯該例的床圍子鏤雕卍字紋。

此品1991年源自倫敦Nicholas Grindley。
來源
Nicholas Grindley, 1991.

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Christopher Engle
Christopher Engle

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The depth of the present bed, which is slightly smaller than many canopy beds, provides it with its charming character, and helps make it less unweildy than many of the larger and more heavily proportioned examples. Also noteworthy is the fine attention to detail, with a combination of high-quality beading and grooving, the use of thick members, and the selection of a fine-grained and attractively coloured huanghuali.

It has been suggested that six-poster canopy beds such as the present example would have been found in women's chambers, and four-poster beds in men's chambers. See, for example, a detail of a lady standing beside a similar six-poster canopy bed, illustrated in the Ming dynasty carpenter's manual Lu Ban jing. (Fig.1)

A huanghuali bed of nearly the exact same size and closely related ornamentation is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and is illustrated by Michael Beurdeley in Chinese Furniture, New York, 1979, p. 83, no. 112. Both the present and Philadelphia beds share the same carved panels beneath the top frame, similarly grooved posts, beaded aprons and thick, rectangular legs, suggesting that the two may have come from the same, or at least a closely related workshop. The only difference between the two appears to be the latticework rails, which on the Philadelphia example is composed of a wan fret.

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