Lot Essay
Compare the pair of chairs from the Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold in these rooms, 18 September 1997, lot 18. Examples without arm struts and with a different arrangement of aprons and stretchers are illustrated by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, p. 102, pl. 80; Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, p. 43, no. A70; and R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, p. 108, pl. I and Ia. Compare, also, the pair without side posts illustrated by Wang, et al., in Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, p. 48, no. 22 and sold in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 85.