QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

Footrests have been used in association with a wide array of furniture, including chairs, couches, painting tables, beds and thrones. Refer to lot 3042 in the current sale for a depiction of footrest before the central figure of the painting. Formal room settings in the Beijing Palace Museum that include furniture in combination with footrests, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, p.294, 302-304. Robert H. Ellsworth illustrates a waisted pair of footrests in Chinese Furniture: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection (I), New York, 1996, pp. 58-9, no. 9, later sold at China Guardian Hong Kong, 7 October 2019, lot 985.

This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.