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19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, QUANYI
19TH CENTURY
Each chair has sweeping crestrails that terminate in out-swept hooks and are supported by the C-shaped splat carved at the center with a ruyi-head medallion above the mat seat and carved, beaded apron and shaped spandrels. The whole is raised on legs of round section joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest at the front.
39 ¼ in. (99.7 cm.) high, 24 ¾ in. (62.9 cm.) wide, 20 ¾ in. (52.7 cm.) deep
19TH CENTURY
Each chair has sweeping crestrails that terminate in out-swept hooks and are supported by the C-shaped splat carved at the center with a ruyi-head medallion above the mat seat and carved, beaded apron and shaped spandrels. The whole is raised on legs of round section joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest at the front.
39 ¼ in. (99.7 cm.) high, 24 ¾ in. (62.9 cm.) wide, 20 ¾ in. (52.7 cm.) deep
Provenance
Walter P. Rundle Collection, New York.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1-2 May 1958, lot 361.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, #F-104.
Acquired from the above in 1974.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1-2 May 1958, lot 361.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, #F-104.
Acquired from the above in 1974.
Literature
W.M. Drummond, Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early Scholarship, 1969," Journal of Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Summer 1993, p. 58, pl. 2.
Special notice
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