A PAIR OF BAMBOO HORSESHOEBACK ARMCHAIRS, QUANYI

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A PAIR OF BAMBOO HORSESHOEBACK ARMCHAIRS, QUANYI
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Each with a U-shaped bamboo crestrail continuing to form the arms and the front posts, supported by four slender bamboo sideposts, the lacquered softwood seat above an apron of four bamboo leg-encircling stretchers, supported on legs joined at the base with two leg-encircling stretchers, with a softwood footrest and softwood stretchers on the sides
37¼in. (93.1cm.) high, 21¼in. (53.1cm.) wide, 16¼in. (40.6cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a similar example, one of a pair, included by Nancy Berliner in the exhibition, Friends of the House: Furniture from China's Towns and Villages, The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 1996, Catalogue, p. 75, no. 19

For a discussion of bamboo furniture see footnote to lot 206