LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY

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A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR STOOLS, CHANGFANGDENG

LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY
The soft-mat seats are enclosed by the rectangular frame with convex molding and indented beading, supported on splayed square legs with rounded outer corners, joined by plain double stretchers on the short sides and single stretchers on the long sides, and by the beaded apron, the apron-head spandrels with indented corner moldings, the underside with a pair of transverse braces.

20 1/4 in. (51.4cm.) high, 20 1/4 in. (51.5cm.) wide, 16 1/4 in. (41.3cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Compare with an almost identical pair of stools from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 15. Also refer to another pair of stools with similar design and proportions in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Qing Early Dynasties, 1990, Hong Kong, vol. II, p. 19, A3; and a single stool illustrated by Gustav Ecke in Chinese Domestic Furniture, 1962, Tokyo, pl. 95, no. 75.

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