PROPERTY FROM THE HAROLD AND RUTH NEWMAN COLLECTION A RARE AND MASSIVE SHANXI BAMBOO BOOKCASEQing Dynasty, late 18th or early 19th century prising three inner shelves and one top shelf, the back with a latticework design centered by octagonal panels of angled lattice bordered by square panels of T-fret lattice, the sides with octagonal openings. 69in (175.3cm) high; 51 1/4in (130.2cm) wide; 20 1/4in (51.4cm) deep 十八世紀晚期/十九世紀初期 山西竹書架 Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot 370 The Harold and Ruth Newman Collection, Connecticut, 1997-2022 出處： 紐約蘇富比，1997 年 3 月 19 日，拍品第 370 號 康州 Harold and Ruth Newman 藏，1997-2022 Whilst it is very rare to find dated pieces of Chinese domestic hardwood furniture, the same is not true of Chinese domestic bamboo furniture. A surprisingly large number of Bamboo pieces bear inscribed ink dates that generally fall into the late Qianlong period. It is therefore possible to date with some confidence much of the bamboo production on stylistic similarities to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. For a lengthy discussion of bamboo furniture, see an article by Ronald Longsdorf, 'Chinese Bamboo Furniture: Its History and Influence on Hardwood Furniture', Orientations , January 1994, pp.76-83. See also Michel Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture , New York, 1979, pp. 48-51.