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拍品专文
Fan-shaped stools were made to complement round dining tables. It is particularly rare to find a surviving pair of this, especially those made from huanghuali. Stools of various shapes, including fan-shape, are illustrated in the early Qing dynasty album Bai Mei tu, see Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Volume I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 32. For a further discussion on the shape and utilization in the domestic life of the Chinese upper-class in the Qing dynasty, see Wu Meifeng, Shengqing Jiaju Xingzhi liubian yanjiu (Research on the evolution of Qing dynasty furniture shapes), Beijing, 2005, p. 312.
A pair of stools of rectangular shape but of bamboo-inspired design, dated to the late 16th-early 17th century, in the Lu Ming Shi collection is illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce, Living with Ming – The Lu Ming Shi Collection, 2000, pp. 78.-9, pl. 13. A very similar stool also inspired by bamboo design but of square shape from the Robert and William Drummond Collection is illustrated by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland and Tokyo, 1962, p. 97, fig. 77.
A pair of stools of rectangular shape but of bamboo-inspired design, dated to the late 16th-early 17th century, in the Lu Ming Shi collection is illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce, Living with Ming – The Lu Ming Shi Collection, 2000, pp. 78.-9, pl. 13. A very similar stool also inspired by bamboo design but of square shape from the Robert and William Drummond Collection is illustrated by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland and Tokyo, 1962, p. 97, fig. 77.