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拍品專文
The present chair belongs to a very small group of furniture constructed in China and decorated in Japan. Other chairs belonging to this group include a pair from the collection of William Cornelius Van Horne, bequeathed to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and a pair in the Los Angeles County Art Museum gifted by Lynda and Stewart Resnick (M.2013.53.1-.2) and published and exhibited by Nicholas Grindley, ‘November 1999’, cat. No. 10.
The collaboration between Chinese and Japanese craftsmen is somewhat surprising given the official trade ban put in force by the Kangxi government between 1662 and 1683. However, there is evidence of this cooperation between the two nations during this turbulent period as evidenced by the Chinese mother-of-pearl-inlaid lacquer stand bearing a Kangxi-period cyclical date corresponding to 1673, with a decorative theme relating to a Japanese legend, strongly suggesting that it was intended for a Japanese patron, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3577.
The collaboration between Chinese and Japanese craftsmen is somewhat surprising given the official trade ban put in force by the Kangxi government between 1662 and 1683. However, there is evidence of this cooperation between the two nations during this turbulent period as evidenced by the Chinese mother-of-pearl-inlaid lacquer stand bearing a Kangxi-period cyclical date corresponding to 1673, with a decorative theme relating to a Japanese legend, strongly suggesting that it was intended for a Japanese patron, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3577.