CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE DALI-INSET HUANGHUALI MELON-FORM STOOL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The variegated marble top set in the five-part circular frame above the lobed barrel-form sides, the whole raised on five ruyi-form feet
16 ¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high, 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Collection of Alice Boney, New York.
Johnstone-Fong, Inc., Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 1991.
The Irving Collection, no. 1023.

Literature

Robert H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1971, p. 195, pl. 104.

Special notice

Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

Lot Essay

The present melon-form stool is among six known stools of this design, four of which have been published. Of these four stools, three are inset with wood panels, including the pair illustrated by Robert Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999, pp. 44-5, pl. 5, and the single stool, formerly in the Gustav Ecke Collection, illustrated by Ecke in Chinese Domestic Furniture, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, p. 141, pl. 112. The present stool is the only published example inset with a marble top.

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