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Lot Essay
See the footnote to lot 71.
For an example of a similar horseshoeback armchair in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, also with plain splat and apron, see C. Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, p. 25, fig. 11.
S. Handler, in Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture, Berkeley and Toronto, 2005, p. 108, in discussing the association of rank with the type of seat offered or chosen suggests that "an official receiving dispatches might choose a roundback armchair".
For an example of a similar horseshoeback armchair in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, also with plain splat and apron, see C. Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, p. 25, fig. 11.
S. Handler, in Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture, Berkeley and Toronto, 2005, p. 108, in discussing the association of rank with the type of seat offered or chosen suggests that "an official receiving dispatches might choose a roundback armchair".