60.7×60.7×50.8 cm (23 7/8×23 7/8×20 in.)

出版：《洪氏所藏木器百圖》（Chinese Furniture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection），圖2，Privately Published•New York•1996，第45頁。
The beauty of this stool derives not from its structural uniqueness, but from its fine proportions, which epitomize a standard, classic, and deservedly popular Ming type. What makes this piece noteworthy is that it is made of huang-yang-mu, a wood closely approximating boxwood, rather than the preferred huang hua-li, tzu-t'an, or a more humble softwood. Boxwood is a compact wood of the box shrub or tree, straight in grain and pale yellow in color. The density of its timber makes boxwood especially well suited to fine carving. In China huang-yang-mu was used to make small-scale carvings such as brushpots, seals, and other scholars' objects, as well as for inlay; it was rarely used for furniture simply because the boxwood trunk does not normally grow large enough to be of practical use for big pieces. Some thirty years ago, Helen Ling of Singapore had four K'ang-hsi huang-yang-mu chairs and a table; the only large published piece known to the authors is a high yoke-back huang-yang-mu armchair (Ellsworth 1971, p. 85, color pl. 25). A lounging chair in the Hung collection has intricate decorative panels carved of huang-yang-mu (No. 27).
The unelaborated lines of this stool emphasize the color and beauty of the wood grain rather than its suitability as a carving material. The square seat is a soft-mat replacement of the original, and is secured in a frame that has no exposed tenons. The recessed, splayed legs are double-lock mortise and tenoned into the underside of the seat frame. Each leg is square in section on the inside and rounded on the outer face. The aprons are mitered and half-lapped and tongue and grooved into the inside edge of the legs, then butt-joined to the underside of the seat frame. High, straight stretchers are hidden-tenoned at the same height into the legs.
—Robert H. Ellsworth (Chinese Funiture: The Hung Collection)

Price estimate:
HKD: 540,000 - 800,000
USD: 68,900 - 102,000

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