A pair of hongmu barrel stools


Late Qing DynastySet with a variegated grey marble top with inclusions suggestive of a mountainous landscape in a circular frame above shaped aprons and four outward-curved legs each stool, raised on four short bracket feet. Each 46.5cm (18 1/3in) high x 45cm (17 5/7in) diam. (2).
|清末 硬木嵌大理石坐墩 一對Compare with a related pair of hongmu drumstools, which is illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, vol.2, Hong Kong, 2005, pl.25; compare also with a pair of marble-inset hongmu barrel stools, 18th/19th century, which was sold at Christie's New York, 17 March 2016, lot 1334.