Live Auction 17837Lacquer, Jade, Bronze, Ink: The Irving Collection Day Sale
A PAIR OF MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOLS
Lot 1204 THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION

A PAIR OF MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOLS

CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Closed21 March 2019

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A PAIR OF MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOLS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Each with variegated grey marble top set in a circular frame above shaped aprons and five outward-curved legs framing conjoined scrollwork, all raised on short bracket feet.
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high, 19.5 (49.5 cm.) diam.

The Irving Collection, no. 1007.

Specialist note

Compare a related pair of marble-inset hongmu stools, formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, sold at Christie’s, New York, 18 March 2015, lot 183. See, also, a single stool with a brown-veined stone top illustrated by Robert H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 194, no. 101, and currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.