LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Catalpa wood

Measurements:

20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (height) by 40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (width) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Edition:

Number four from the edition of five.

Markings:

Base incised with artist's signature and 4 / 5.

Exhibited:

Design 05 Miami, December 1-5, 2005; "Shao Fan-Pierre Marie Lejeune-Sculpteurs-Deux Propositions, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, May 14-June 28, 2006

Literature:

"Contrasts and Contradictions: Contrasts Gallery," Modern Painters, March 2006, p. 125 for a similar example; Nancy Berliner and Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture Makers Explore Chinese Territory, exh. cat., Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2007, p. 125 for a similar example; Zhang Hongxing and Lauren Parker, eds., China Design Now, London, 2008, p. 86, fig. 81 for a similar example; Volker Fischer and Stephen von der Shulenburg, Sit in China: Ein Streifzug durch durch 500 Jahre Kultur des Sitzens=An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting, Stuttgart, 2010, p. 66 for a similar example

Provenance:

Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China