18TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI SQUARE CORNER-LEG STOOL, FANGDENG
18TH CENTURY
Inspired by a bamboo prototype, the stool is fitted with a soft mat seat within a square frame. The whole is raised on corner legs carved to simulate a bundle of four slender bamboo rods, joined by a double-molded apron stretcher set with six vertical struts, and further joined by rounded stretchers at the base.
18¾ in. (47.6 cm.) high, 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) wide, 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1950s-60s.

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar pair of bamboo-inspired stools, dating to the late 16th-early 17th century, in the Lu Ming Shi Collection, illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce, Living With Ming - The Lu Ming Shi Collection, Philippe De Backer, 2000, pp. 78-79, no. 13. A very similar stool, of comparable size, in the collection of Messrs. Robert and William Drummond, is illustrated by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland and Tokyo, 1962, p. 97, fig. 77.

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