Lot 1114. A pair of huanghuali lamphanger side chairs, dengguayi, 17th century; 43½ in. (110.5 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide, 16¾ in. (42.6 cm.) deep. Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000. Price realised USD 161,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014

Each has a stepped crest rail extending beyond the corner posts, above the gracefully curved splat and hard mat seat set within the rectangular frame below shaped, beaded aprons and spandrels in the front, and plain aprons and spandrels on the sides and back. The whole is supported on legs of rounded section joined by stepped stretchers and the footrest.

Provenance: Vernay & Jussel, New York, late 1970s.
Nicholas Grindley.
Private collection, Paris, 1985-2009.

Note: Compare a very similar huanghuali lamphanger side chair illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 38, no. A56. See, also, a similar pair of huanghuali lamphanger side chairs, also dated to the 17th century, sold at Christie's New York, 26 March 2003, lot 138.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza