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5 septembre 2011

A Pair Of 'Huanghuali' Horseshoeback Armchairs (Quanyi). Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century

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A Pair Of 'Huanghuali' Horseshoeback Armchairs (Quanyi). Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century. Photo Sotheby's

the curving crestrail in three sections terminating in everted handgrips, above a bowed backsplat, carved with a stylized cloud medallion and flanked by narrow shaped-flange brackets, with a soft cane seat and molded seat frame, on circular legs joined by a shaped apron carved with entwined vines flanked by long beaded-edge flange brackets secured by box stretchers, above shallow arched aprons at the front and sides, smoothly finished, the wood of rich reddish-brown with characteristic figuring (2). Height 38 1/4 in., 97.2 cm; Width 25 1/4 in., 64.1 cm; Depth 23 in., 58.4 cm. Estimate 150,000-250,000 USD

PROVENANCE: Chan Lai Wood Ware, Hong Kong, 1988.

Property of a Midwest Asian American Collector

NOTE: A horseshoeback chair of almost identical form is illustrated by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1970, p. 127, pl. 18. For other chairs with similar decoration see Christie's, New York, 21st September 2004, lots 11 and 18. A pair with more elaborately decorated aprons from The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture was sold at Christie's, New York, 19th September 1996, lot 99, and a pair without any decoration on the backsplat and apron was sold in these room, 15th September 2010, lot 339.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York. 14 september 2011 www.sothebys.com

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