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A pair of hongmu armchairs with 'dream-stone' marble insets


Late Qing dynasty to Republic period, by Li Jiren103.5 high, 61.5 wide, 46.5 deep (2).
|Provenance:Private collection, Sydney, acquired in the early 1980sErquan Shanmin is the studio name of Li Jiren, who was a stone carver active during the late Qing dynasty and Republic period. Known examples by Li have been seen on the international market recently. In these examples, Li utilises the natural patterns of the dream stones and makes them into marble insets or table screens. He usually titles the marble according to his imagined subjects, and signs either with his studio name or actual name. Born in Wuxi, Li was known to have either worked or lived in Shanghai. Hongmu chairs with designs such as this lot were very popular in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic period. This pair of chairs could well have been made when Li was in Shanghai.晚清至民國　紅木嵌云石扶手椅一對款識：焦峰屹峙，二泉山民。夕映遠岫，二泉山民。傳承：紐省私人收藏，購於八十年代早期二泉山民乃晚清民國時期石刻匠人李吉民齋號。近年時有李氏晚清時期製掛屏插屏釋出市場，隨云石變幻的天然紋理，或似山石、或類霧靄，附以李氏擬意短句或標題，皆清新雅淡，古樸別緻之文房精品。李氏梁溪（今無錫）人，据其題款知其或遊歷或寓居上海。此款扶手椅乃上海晚清民初流行樣式，或為李氏於海上所作。