LATE 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOLS
LATE 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Each has an attractive variegated grey marble top with inclusions suggestive of a mountainous landscape set in a circular frame above shaped aprons and four outward-curved legs framing conjoined scrollwork. The whole is raised on short bracket feet.
19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high, 17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm.) diam.

Literature

R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, vol. 2, Hong Kong, New York, 2005, pp. 60-61, no. 25.

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Lot Essay

Compare a related pair of marble-inset hongmu stools, formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 183. See, also, a single stool with a brown-veined stone top illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 194, no. 101, and currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. See, also, a red-variegated marble-inset stool, formerly in the Marie Theresa L. Virata Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 16 March 2017, lot 603.

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