LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

What appears to be the identical pair to the present chair, formerly in the Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection, was sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2002, lot 31, and published by G. Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp. 36-37, no. 8 (and front cover). The author notes that the Dr. Yip chair, and by extension the present example, is unique because all other chairs of this period have vertical backsplats, with the exception of rose chairs, but the curved toprail and elongated S-shaped arms are not found on rose chairs of this period.