Folding stool, Huanghuali wood Late Ming (1573 – 1644)

The curvilinear shaped seat rails with beaded edges were drilled for a woven seat and has now been restored with woven ropes. The round legs are mortised, tenoned and lapped to the seat rails and base stretchers, all with exposed tenons, and are hinged by metal rods passing through holes in their centre and secured on both sides by chrysanthemum shaped baitong plates. Inlaid rectangular plates with ruyi heads extend beyond these hinge plates for further reinforcements. A shaped footrest with small hoof feet and curvilinear shaped apron is mortised and tenoned to the two front legs and base stretcher. There are also baitong straps with ruyi heads on the four legbase stretcher and leg-seat rail joins for reinforcements.

香港，1995–1996， 香港藝術館「好古敏求 敏求精舍三十五週年紀念展」
美國 科羅拉多州 丹佛，1997–1999，丹佛藝術博物館
倫敦，1999，當代藝術中心「嘉木堂呈獻葉承耀醫生藏明式家具珍品」

香港藝術館《好古敏求 敏求精舍三十五週年紀念展》香港，1995，頁262
Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Hong Kong, 1998. 伍嘉恩《攻玉山房藏明式黃花梨家具：禪椅琴凳》香港，1998，頁76–77
載錄於Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999. 羅伯特．雅各布遜、尼古拉斯．格林利《明尼阿波利斯藝術博物館藏中國古典家具》明尼阿波利斯，1999，頁36–37
王世襄《明式家具研究》生活．讀書．新知三聯書店，北京，2008，頁38 刊載作者舊藏一具，現存上海博物館

別例比較:
波士頓美術館「屏居佳器」展館中有一雕卷草紋的例子刊載於Nancy Berliner, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996. 楠希．白靈安《屏居佳器：十六至十七世紀中國家具》波士頓美術館，1996，頁92–93
載 錄 於 Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999. 羅伯特．雅各布遜、尼古拉斯．格林利《明尼阿波利斯藝術博物館藏中國古典家具》明尼阿波利斯，1999，頁 36–37

沒有靠背的座具為杌，而交杌就是腿足相交的杌，俗稱馬閘。早在東漢時就有「靈帝好胡服、胡帳、胡床……」的記載，而胡床就是現在的馬閘、交杌。可見交杌是中國最早的座具之一。因其可摺疊，攜帶，存放都很方便，千百年來廣泛被人使用。
此具製作精美的明代黃花梨交杌，配有白銅飾件。明代畫家仇英所繪之《列女傳》版畫中一圖可見一名隨從扛著交杌，跟在主人馬後，暗示除了方便攜帶出行，更有協助上下馬的用途。