CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

A very similar zitan square stool, but with two double pillar-shaped struts above upper humpback stretchers from the Chuang Collection, is illustrated in Shanghai Museum: Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 19. For another zitan example with double pillar-shaped struts, see Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 60, no. 12. Compare, also, a similar pair in jichimu, also with double-matted seat, illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 196, pl. 105 and 105a, and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.