LATE 17TH-18TH CENTURY

The chair design was most likely inspired by bamboo prototypes, most notably seen in the fretwork below the seat. A nanmu six-post canopy bed illustrated by Zhang Jinhua in The Classical Chinese Furniture of Weiyang: Representative Examples, vol. 2, London, 2016, pp. 258-9, is constructed with similar design in the openwork panels at the top of the bed and on the back and side railings. See, also, a bamboo-inspired huanghuali side table in the Qing Court Collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of Ming and Qing Dynasty Furniture in the Palace Museum: Table, vol. 7, Beijing, 2015, p. 136-7, pl. 57, which exhibits a similar conception of the stretchers under the table commonly seen on bamboo examples.