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22 mai 2020

A huanghuali massage stool and footrest, Late Ming dynasty

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A HUANGHUALI MASSAGE STOOL AND FOOTREST LATE MING DYNASTY |

Lot 124. huanghuali massage stool and footrest, Late Ming dynasty; 205.5 by 214 by 126 cm., 80 7/8  by 84 1/4  by 49 5/8  in. Estimate 9,000,000 — 15,000,000 HKD. Lot Sold 13,880,000 HKD (215,542 EUR). Courtesy Sotheby's.

the top of standard mitre, mortise and tenon frame construction, a wide transverse stretcher set flush, T-mitred, mortised and tennoned to the frame dividing the space inside the mitred frame into two parts, the larger part inset with a flush, tongue-and-grooved, single board floating panel and the smaller part with two rollers hinged on extended dowels fitting into sockets on the inside edge of the mitred frame, the outside edge of the frame moulding downward and inward and ending in a narrow flat band, the aprons, straight and plain on three sides and curvilinear shaped on the side of the rollers half-lapped, mortised and tennoned to the legs ending in well-shaped hoof feet, the corners of the top of the massage stool and footrest inlaid with baitong mounts.

ExhibitedMing Furniture, Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1995.
The Chinese Collections, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 1997-99.
Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998, cat. no. 13, pp. 84-85.
The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Macao Museum of Art, Macau, 2003.

LiteratureGrace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p 176. 
Grace Wu Bruce, Ming Furniture Through My Eyes, Beijing, 2015, p. 180.

Note"A combined footrest and massage stool, both rarities in one. It is a piece to die for."

Footrests and massage stools are usually separate pieces of furniture. Compare the footrests and the massage stool illustrated in the 15th century carpenter's manual Lu Ban jingjiang jiajing [Lu Ban's Classic, A Mirror for Craftsmen]. This unusual piece, which combines the functions of a footrest and a massage stool, is almost unique among published examples. 

For the only other extant huanghuali massage stool and footrest known, see Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1999, p. 199.

Sotheby's. Ming Furniture – The Dr S Y Yip Collection, Hong Kong, 07 October 2015

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