The prototype of the flat head case is the focus of the 2021 spring auction of Zhongmao Shengjia "Chopping Wood - Ming and Qing Furniture Special Session", with a pre-auction valuation of RMB 80-1 million, a transaction price of 7.7625 million, a premium of 9 times.
Case furniture is more common with chuck tenons, such as this example of shoulder mortise is very rare, huanghuali masterpiece is more rare, so in the minds of connoisseurs and collectors, shoulder mortise is an important goal to pursue diligently.
Hong Kong's Ng Ka En's Jia Mu Tang also has a collection of the same style and decoration as this example, which can be referred to the "Twenty Years of Ming-style Furniture", and Wang Shixiang's "Ming-style Furniture Appreciation" also contains a similar one, with the endorsement of famous artists and famous collections.
LOT. 1552
Ming Huanghuali shoulder mortise flat head case
L:90cm, W:42cm, H:76.5cm
Realized price: RMB7,762,500
Small flat head case, 90 cm long, nearly half of its width of 42 cm, height 76.5 cm, the overall handsome and healthy, generous fall, the proportion is appropriate.
The case surface is framed with a core, the texture is fresh and elegant, the pulp is brilliant and smooth, the lower part of the ice plate eaves is slowly retracted and adducted, and a margin line is stepped on to the bottom, and the transition is natural and smooth.
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The tooth head and tooth plate are dug into a wooden piece, and the tooth head is dug into a cloud ruyi cloud head, intersecting the leg foot with a slanted shoulder and embedding the notch of the upper section of the leg foot. The tooth plate is in the same plane as the upper skin of the leg and foot, and the newly sprouted leaf buds are carved with a refined knife method on the cloud head, and the flowers and leaves are naturally rolled to the sides, and the straight yang line is raised along the tip of the leaf, extending along the tooth plate and the edge of the leg foot.
The inward yang line sinks sharply, and then rapidly turns upwards, gathering on the herringbone shape, outlining the undulating outline of the gate, which is quite magnificent and upright. The downward yang line follows the edge of the leg foot, and turns out of the horse's hoof to the bottom, landing on the bottom of the lotus-shaped bottom foot. At the bottom foot, a reishi mushroom cloud pattern is carved, and the tip of the cloud is raised into a blazing incense, straight into the cloud top, and the momentum is like a rainbow.
Red Bridge Red · Shoulder mortise flat head case
Hongqiao red team imitation of the shoulder mortise flat head case, desktop frame, replica Burmese flowers, acid branches set single board face heart, rosewood three spelling.
The side ice disc is along the step type, the lower micro-arc surface, to the bottom leather strip line pressing edge, natural and smooth, the case surface under the belt out of the transparent half tenon, this practice is simple and solid, and the corresponding large side is also semi-transparent mortise method.
The tooth plate is dug into the door, the curve is soft, the ups and downs are undulating, and the herringbone tip hangs more on both sides, which is the style of early cork furniture.
The tooth head is skeletonized as a ruyi cloud head, and the grass leaf pattern of one stem and two leaves and one bud is dotted at the twists and turns, and the leaves are wrapped around and interesting.
The leg-foot span is obvious, and there are rectangular ladders between them, and the ladders are double-pressed edges of the su-mixed surface.
The sole end of the leg is skimmed out of the leaf-shaped foot, slightly near the bell below, and the relief on it is a ganoderma lucid ruyi cloud head, which is very vivid, and the tip of the cloud head is derived into a blazing incense line, straight through the leg foot, inserted into the cloud top, straight and strong.