A PAIR OF MARBLE-INSET HONGMU BARREL-FORM STOOLS

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.