A huanghuali square stool, Fangdeng, 19th/20th century the flush floating panel top within a mitred frame with moulded edge, supported on slightly splayed rounded corner legs joined by a shaped apron with beaded edge forming entwined foliate scrolls on each side, and extending down the legs to stretchers above the plain feet, 48.5 cm high, 45 cm wide, 45 cm deep. Provenance, Tomlinson Antique House, Singapore, c 1993, This lot is sold with a Tomlinson Antique House certificate of antiquity describing this stool as huanghuali and dating it to the Qing dynasty, Compare with a square stool dated to the Qing dynasty, illustrated by Wang Xishiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture Vol II p.25, plate A21