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24 janvier 2019

A pair of huanghuali low-back armchairs (meiguiyi), 17th century

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Lot 409. A pair of huanghuali low-back armchairs (meiguiyi), 17th century; Height 31 1/2  in., 80 cm; Width 20 7/8  in., 53 cm; Depth 17 in., 43.2 cm. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 USD. Lot sold 100,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's 2014.

each with the rounded corner top rail pipe-joined to the stiles continuing through the seat frame to form the back legs, the arms with similar round corners mortised, tenoned and half-lapped to the stiles and pipe-joined to the posts, two horizontal stretchers divide the chair back into three sections, the tops with a central openwork strut carved with an animal mask and lingzhi, further divided by two vertical stretchers each with a central open work carving of dragons, enclosing an arch-shaped beaded-edged apron, all joined by stretchers and struts mortised and tenoned to the molded edge frame securing the soft matting seat, above the beaded-edge mitered apron tongue and grooved to the legs, joined by stepped stretchers (2)

Provenance: Grace Wu Bruce Company, Ltd., Hong Kong.

Note: Often referred to as 'rose' chairs, this type with low rectangular arms and back is the smallest among the classic forms.  Its slender, elegant lines and compact proportions encourage portable and functional ease making it one of the more popular forms and one often depicted in paintings and prints in the Ming and Qing dynasties.  It is shown a variety of settings accentuating its versatility. 

Most meiguiyi adhere to a type, splat back, spindle back or a back with a three-sided framework. Examples with either elaborate latticework or figural carving such as the present lot are rare. An example with an openwork plaque of a chilongand lingzhi from the Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection is illustrated in Grace 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, no. 8, pp. 36-39. For a related armchair with foliate openwork carving in three sections see Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1990, vol. 1,  no. A 66, p. 40.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 18 Mar 2014

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