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Mirror stand, Zitan wood Late Ming (1573 – 1644)
Estimate
200,000 - 200,000 HKD
bidding is closed
Description
Exhibited
Denver, Colorado, 1997 – 1999, Denver Art Museum
Washington D.C., 1997 – 2001, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Macau, 2003, The Macao Museum of Art, “The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture”
Washington D.C., 1997 – 2001, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Macau, 2003, The Macao Museum of Art, “The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture”
Literature
Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 188 – 189
The Macao Museum of Art, The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Macau, 2003, pp. 40 – 41
The Macao Museum of Art, The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Macau, 2003, pp. 40 – 41
Catalogue Note
Similar example:
Emma Bunker ‘Chinese Treasures in the Denver Art Museum’, Orientations, February 1993, Hong Kong, p. 34 illustrates a similar huaghuali example in the collection of the Denver Art Museum
Emma Bunker ‘Chinese Treasures in the Denver Art Museum’, Orientations, February 1993, Hong Kong, p. 34 illustrates a similar huaghuali example in the collection of the Denver Art Museum
This is a mirror stand of classic design similar to those depicted in numerous Ming paintings. This piece fashioned in zitan wood is very rare among surviving examples. The lattice panel with the top rail ornamented with heads of dragons and the back support both have extended dowels that fit into sockets in the base frame, allowing them to operate on a hinge mechanism and collapse flat into the frame when not in use. There is a removable lotus leaf shaped support where the mirror would rest.