PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION A rare Teak and Ratan 'Recamier' chaise loungeCirca 1805 With tall gently curving back at one end and a scroll cylinder at the other, with extraordinarily fine and deeply carved peony head at each of the cylinder, which is mirrored in a smaller size to the scrolls of the tall end, the removable low back with gently tapering shaped top rail, the front apron reeded and an overall neatly hatched ratan caning, all supported on four short flattened gently curled legs with wide knees. 33in (83.8cm) high; 25in (63.5cm) deep; 71in (180.3cm) long 1805 年前後 柚木藤編躺椅 Provenance: Nicholas Grindley, London, May 1984 The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984-present Exhibited: Peabody Museum, Salem Massachusetts (now the Peabody Essex Museum), Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection , 1986-1988 出處： 倫敦 Nicholas Grindley，1984 年五月 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1984 年至今 展出記錄： 麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》，1986-1988 Another rare 'Recamier' or chaise lounge of padouk wood with caning, dated to 1800-1810, from the Manchester Historical Society, Manchester Massachusetts, of near identical form, is illustrated in The Magazine Antiques , February 1992, in an article by Carl L. Crossman, China Trade Furniture, p. 334, Fig. 1, where the author notes that little is known about the actual manufacture of furniture in Canton (Guangzhou) but that nineteenth-century references, suggest it was made in Carpenters' Square behind the western traders' quarter. He mentions three cabinetmakers, Ahning, Ashoe , and Ashie , known primarily through bills of sale and labels on trunks and boxes beginning in around 1805. He illustrates a rare and now oft-cited gouache painting from the private collection of Benjamin Ginsburg, depicting the interior of a Canton cabinetmaker's shop of around 1820 which shows a craftsman at work on remarkably similar chaise lounge (Pl. II). This same gouache painting is better illustrated in Carl L. Crossman, The China Trade, Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver and other Objects , Princeton, 1972, pp.142 and 145, pl.116. and the 'Recamier' models further discussed.