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AN IMPORTANT AND RARE HUANGHUALI TOWEL RACK AND WASHBASIN, MIANPENJIA

Lot 2805
29.11.2022 11:30UTC +08:00
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HKD 9 450 000
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Lot 2805 | AN IMPORTANT AND RARE HUANGHUALI TOWEL RACK AND WASHBASIN, MIANPENJIA
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HKD 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
AN IMPORTANT AND RARE HUANGHUALI TOWEL RACK AND WASHBASIN, MIANPENJIA

MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

The stand comprises two back posts connected by a toprail terminating in carved lingzhi sprays above scrolling tendrils, a central openwork panel depicting blossoming magnolia rising from rocks, above hanging spandrels of leafy tendrils and an apron carved with interlinked vines, all above a narrow shelf with beaded edges supported by an apron with openwork scrolls. The metal basin is resting on a crossed stretcher joining the six legs terminating in lotus buds at the tops and interlinked by another cross stretcher at the bottom below.

70 1/8 in. (178cm.) high, 21 5/8 in. (55cm.) wide, 19 in. (48cm.) deep





Provenance

China Art, Hong Kong

Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1993.

The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Renaissance, California.

Christie’s New York, Important Chinese Furniture. Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 101.

Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.



Literature

Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Classical Furniture, New York, 1995, pl. 25.

Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 174, no. 81

National Museum of History, Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p. 194.

Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p.251.



Exhibited

Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 26 June-5 September 1999.

Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, on loan from 2007-2014.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, on loan from 2014-2019.



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Please note these lots contain a type of Dalbergia wood that is subject to CITES export/import restrictions. However, as in each lot (or each individual item in the lot) the weight of this type of Dalbergia does not exceed 10 kg, starting from 1 May 2021, CITES license is no longer required for importing the lot (or the individual item in the lot) into Hong Kong. Before you decide to bid, please check whether your destination country permits import without CITES license. If CITES license is required, we will make the lot available for your collection in Hong Kong. We will not cancel your purchase due to any CITES restrictions impacting the import of the lot to the destination country.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Wood
Historical era:Ming dynasty
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