SHI JIANMIN
Lot 19

SHI JIANMIN

'SUCKLING PIGLETS FEEDING FROM THE CORNUCOPIA OF NATURE'S ETERNAL WELLSPRING': DESIGNED 2007

Closed30 October 2013

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GBP 62,500

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SHI JIANMIN
'SUCKLING PIGLETS FEEDING FROM THE CORNUCOPIA OF NATURE'S ETERNAL WELLSPRING': DESIGNED 2007
fourth artist's proof from an edition of eight plus four A.P.s, patinated copper, comprising a table and six stools, the table set with bowl and egg
table 34 in (87.6 cm.) high; 95 in. (241.3 cm.) wide; 42½ in. (108 cm.)
signed and engraved AP 4/4 (9)

Specialist note

Another suite from this edition was sold in these rooms: 20th Century Decorative Art & Design, Christie's, 3 May 2012, lot 171.

Referencing Taoist poetry and informed by classical Chinese garden
stone work, this uniquely expressive design was conceived for the China Chair Project, 2007-2008. By exposing the friction between the natural and the synthetic, the ancient and the modern, the suite offers the spectator a distinctly non-Western interpretation of both structure and aesthetics, yielding an elegant contribution towards the narrative of design into the twenty-first century.