A HUANGHUALI RECTANGULAR STOOL (FANGDENG) LATE MING / EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

with typical mitered, mortice and tenon frame and hard mat seat,  above a straight waist and simple beaded apron formed from a single piece of wood, supported on straight beaded legs of square section, terminating in hoof feet, joined by arched stretchers

Collection of LaRue Robbins Lutkins (1919-2011). 

The soft matted seat replaced with hard matting, the frame with a small piece missing from one of the tenons. All four legs with repairs; one with a long split and another with a missing plug, another with a long rectangular repair. The joins all consolidated with glue.
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A similar waisted stool of rectangular form is illustrated in Wang Shixiang et al., Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1990, no. A16.