十七世紀 黃花梨交杌

the shaped seat rails with beaded edges carved in low relief with confronting chilong, drilled for a woven seat, the round legs mortised, tenoned and lapped to the seat rails and base stretchers, all with exposed tenons, hinged by metal pins, and secured on both sides by chrysanthemum-shaped baitong plates, reinforced by rectangular plates with ruyi heads, a shaped footrest with small hoof feet and a cusped apron mortised and tenoned to the pair of front legs and base stretcher with a baitong strap along the front edge with ruyi corners and openwork lozenges in the center, further baitong straps with ruyi heads added for reinforcements where the four legs, base stretcher and leg-seat rail join

紐約蘇富比1999年3月23日，編號62
由A·阿弗烈·陶博曼於以上拍賣購得

The stool is in overall good condition. As is quite typical for this type, the mounts have been replaced and it is likely that the footrest has been replaced. The surface with expected wear.
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This refined late Ming or early Qing dynasty piece made in precious huanghuali wood has baitong metal mounts.The woodblock print illustration to Lienu Zhuan (Biography of women in Ancient China) by Ming dynasty painter Qiu Ying shows an attendant carrying a folding stool behind his master on horseback, suggesting their usage as travelling seats as well as stools for alighting from horses.

For a similar example, now on display in the Shanghai Museum, see Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1990, pl. A41. For two other stools with similar carving see Robert H. Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley and Anita Christy, Chinese Furniture, One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, New York, 1996, no. 1. and Nicholas Grindley, The Yunwai Lou Collection of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 2013, no. 16. Another related example with carved tendrils is illustrated in Nancy Berliner, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996, no. 2. See also Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 36-37. A similar folding stool from the Robert H. Ellsworth collection was sold Christie's New York, 17th March 2015, lot 40. An example with a plain apron from the collection of Dr. S.Y. Yip was sold in our Hong Kong rooms 7th October 2015, lot 131.