Lot 192
192
A PAIR OF HONGMU SPINDLE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, MEIGUIYI
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A PAIR OF HONGMU SPINDLE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, MEIGUIYI

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF HONGMU SPINDLE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, MEIGUIYI
19TH CENTURY
After a bamboo prototype, each with shaped toprail, supported on rounded posts extending to the back legs and flanking the round-section spindles, with a matching series of spindles bracing stepped rectangular arms, the broad rectangular frame with mat seat supported on legs of oval section joined by humpback stretchers with short vertical posts, the base with stretchers and a footrail
33½ in. (85.0 cm.) high, 21 in. (53.3 cm.) wide, 16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) deep (2)
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Lot Essay

Compare the single chair in the Lan Xianmai Collection, illustrated by C. Evarts, et al., Splendour of Style: Classical Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p. 93; and a pair included in Nicholas Grindley, Exhibition at Kate Ganz, New York, March 2000, no. 9.

A similar pair of chairs, but with plain aprons in place of humpback stretchers, sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1997, lot 203.

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