18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED RED LACQUER ARMCHAIRS
18TH CENTURY
Each has a curved, scroll-form splat flanked by stepped back rails and archaistic spandrels and is decorated with leafy bamboo stalks, above a rectangular seat further decorated with a chime encompassed by floral scroll. The whole is raised on legs of round section joined by scrolling humpback apron and stepped stretchers.
42 in. (106.7 cm) high, 24 ¼ in. (61.6 cm) wide, 18 ¼ in. (46.4 cm.) deep

Provenance

Victor Skrebneski (1929-2020) Collection, Chicago.
Barling of Mount Street Ltd., London, 9 December 1991.

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Lot Essay

An identical pair of red lacquer armchairs is currently in the Minneapolis Institute of Art and illustrated by R. Jacobsen and N. Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago, 1999, pp. 74-5, pl. 19, where it is dated to the late eighteenth century. The more elaborate scrolling elements and luxurious use of gilt painted decoration reflects the changing tastes of the Qianlong emperor away from the more restrained Ming-period furniture.

Another similarly dated lacquer armchair sold at Sotheby's London, 17 October 1978, lot 243, and is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1983, p. 189.

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