CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF WAISTED ZITAN CORNER-LEG STOOLS, FANGDENG
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Each with double-matted seat set within the square frame and raised on legs of rounded section joined by humpback stretchers framing vertical struts at the top and plain stretchers below, the wood of attractive color and grain
16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) high, 16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) square

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Lot Essay

A very similar zitan square stool, but with two double pillar-shaped struts above upper humpback stretchers from the Chuang Collection, is illustrated in Shanghai Museum: Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 19. For another zitan example with double pillar-shaped struts, see Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 60, no. 12. Compare, also, a similar pair in jichimu, also with double-matted seat, illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 196, pl. 105 and 105a, and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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