17TH-18TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI SQUARE CABRIOLE-LEG STOOLS
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Each has a mat seat set in the square frame above a narrow waist and shaped, beaded aprons. The whole is raised on elegant, beaded cabriole legs joined by humpback stretchers and terminating in scroll feet.
20 ¾ in. (52.7 cm.) high, 18 ¾ in. (47.6 cm.) square

Provenance

Chan Shing Kee, Hong Kong, November 1994.

Literature

V. Bower, S. Handler and J. Burris, Brush Clay Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2008, p. 51, fig. 22.

Exhibited

Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art, Brush Clay Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art, 7 November 2008 - 11 January 2009.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar huanghuali stools, also dated to the 17th century, in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus, was sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 44. A single huanghuali cabriole leg stool is illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Ming Shi Jia Ju Zhen Shang (Appreciation of Ming Style Furniture), Beijing, 1985, p. 63, pl. 17, formerly of the Flacks Family Collection, was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 September 2016, lot 1137. See, also, another single huanghuali cabriole leg stool, in the Wang Shixiang Collection, with shaped aprons and giant’s arm’s braces illustrated by Wang Shixiang in Ming Shi Jia Ju Zhen Shang (Appreciation of Ming Style Furniture), Beijing, 1985, p. 64, pl. 18.

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