A SET OF EIGHT PADOUKWOOD DINING-CHAIRS

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A SET OF EIGHT PADOUKWOOD DINING-CHAIRS

Including two open armchairs, each with serpentine toprail terminating in foliate eared angles above the pierced C-scroll and foliate splat flanked by moulded uprights and a serpentine seat covered in pink floral silk, on cabriole legs headed by a foliate cabochon and terminating in claw-and-ball feet (8)

拍品专文

It is possible that these chairs are made of the rarer Burmese padouk (P. macrocarpus) rather than the more usual Andaman padouk (P. dalbergiodes) which is easier to carve. F.L. Hinckley first identified the rarity of the former wood and wrote that it had a distinctive cut colour (F.L. Hinckley, Directory of Historic Cabinet Woods, New York, 1960, p. 48)