The use of stone on Ming-style furniture is common in seat screens, bed fences and tables and stools, and rarely appears on the back of the chair, and there are only a few huanghuali chairs.
Ming-style Huanghuali chairs mainly include lamp hanging chairs, rose chairs, cross chairs, circle chairs and official hat chairs. Given the structure of the first three chairs, there are almost no stone faces. The official hat chair is divided into four heads and the south official hat chair, which are the same as the circle chair, and occasionally you can see the heirloom of the stone backrest.
Among the few Huanghuali inlaid stone chairs, the most famous one is probably the huanghuali inlaid marble circle chair in the old collection of the former California Museum and the four halls.
The chair length is 53 widths, 41 heights and 93 cm, dating from the early Qing Dynasty. Before seeing the stone surface, the style of the handrail that does not come out is too eye-catching to mention first.
After looking at the hanging hand section, let's go straight to the subject.
Generally speaking, the stone-inlaid huanghuali chairs are three-fold backrests, and the stone slabs are located in the middle section. This example is no exception, the flat set digs the round hole of the plain plate, filled with marble open light.
The four chairs have different colors, patterns and textures, with a total estimated value of 24 million to 29 million, and the result is 27.025 million yuan, which is three or four years ago.
At about the same time, Hong Kong released a pair of two four-headed official hat chairs, with the aura of Hung's treasure on their heads, and the three sections of the backrest were decorated with stone patterns.
Huanghuali inlaid marble four-headed official hat chairs are paired, 58.5 width, 52 height 98.5 cm, dating from the 17th to 18th centuries of the Qing Dynasty, and the transaction price is 3.46 million Hong Kong dollars, about 2.8 million yuan.
The details of the previous stone surface are omitted from the text description.
In addition, the Huanghuali Nanguan hat chair is also inlaid with stone shapes, and the most recent example appeared in London at the end of the previous year, estimated at 4,000 to 6,000 pounds.
The back of the chair is set up in the shape of a pot, and the collection is marked as a clear yellow pear inlaid marble armchair, which is still the Nanguan hat chair type as a whole.
The single chair was sold for £9,437 for less than 100,000 yuan.
In addition, there are very few heirlooms that have appeared in public, and there are really not many stone-faced chairs in Huanghuali, what other examples can you cite?