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Ming Furniture, Ltd
Ming Furniture Ltd. specializes in the sale of rare Huanghuali, Zitan, and Jichimu hardwood and lacquer furniture from China's golden age of furniture design, the Ming and early Qing dynasties, circa 1500-1775.
Since 1987, our gallery has been advising museums, foundations, corporations, and private collectors in their purchase of important Chinese furniture. Over twenty (20) pieces from our holdings have been sold to and can now be found in the great museum collections of Chinese furniture and art: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Detroit Institute of Arts; and the Guanfu Museum, Beijing. Ming Furniture Ltd. also played an instrumental role in the formation of the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, California.
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A very interesting commentary on yokeback chair design can be found in Dr. Sarah Handler's Ming Furniture In the Light Of Chinese Architecture. Our Pair of Yokeback Side Chairs was not featured in her book as at the time of its publication, they were not yet in the holdings of Ming Furntiure Ltd....
Group: Bar stools
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In her commentary on altar coffers and their origins, Dr. Sarah Handler writes on pages 172 to 175 in Ming Furniture In the Light of Chinese Architecture the following: "Wang Shixiang has pointed out an even earlier possible predecessor to the coffer. A depiction on the wall of a Yuan dynasty tomb...
Group: Socle
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These blonde colored rose armchairs are distinguishable from other Ming period chairs in that the low back and armrests are at right angles to the seat. The struts on the back railing or stretcher which support the arch-shaped apron are bamboo shaped, with beaded carving in a scrolled decorative...
Group: Chairs
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This square table is decorated with horned archaic dragons confronting each other along the cusped aprons. This style of dragon carving suggests a dating from the late Ming period. The legs are constructed from a deeper and darker colored huanghuali. The roundness of the humpbacked stretchers, the...
Group: Tables for cafe
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We consider this high-rail couch bed to be one of the most significant and unusual pieces of Chinese furniture ever discovered. It is remarkable not only for its spectacular form but also a design closely associated with early Chinese architecture.
Dr. Sarah Handler discusses this Couchbed with a...
Group: Wooden bed
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A library or painting table with a similar design of openwork carving in the lingzhi fungus relief motif can be seen in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
A superb description of this Painting Table can be found on pages 155 to 158 of Dr. Sarah Handler's Ming Furniture In The Light of...
Group: Tables
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Published in the Journal of The Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Winter 1991, p. 17, in Dr. Sarah Handler's monograph on Luohan beds - "Comfort and Joy: A Couch Bed for Day and Night." Compare with a zitan wood round legged Luohan bed in Wang Shixiang's Classic Chinese Furniture, 1986, pl. 122,...
Group: Beds
