A FINE PAIR OF ZITAN ARM CHAIRS

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A FINE PAIR OF ZITAN ARM CHAIRS
18TH CENTURY

Each with a shaped tripartite crestrail and back, the central section fitted with a relief panel carved with bats and a suspended musical jade stone, flanked by open sections with scrolling openwork borders, the shaped arms with similar borders and central openwork strut, the broad two-piece seat surrounded by a mitred frame above square-section legs with beaded inner edge and braced by a four-part stretcher, the well-polished wood of characteristic purplish-black tone--24¼ x 19¼ x 42½in. (62 x 49 x 108cm.) (2)

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An analysis by The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England, of a sample of wood taken from this lot confirms it to be of Pterocarpus sp. in the family leguminosae, sub-family Papilionoideae. Zitan is part of this species

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