Lot 115. A huanghuali yokeback armchair, 17th century; 59 by 44.5 by 115.5cm., 23 1/4  by 17 1/2  by 45 3/8 in. Estimate: £30,000 — 50,000. Lot sold 245,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

with an arched crest-rail joined to a wide S-curved rectangular splat, the stiles similarly curved, on a hard caned seat with elegantly out-scrolled arms above a beaded and shaped spandrel and a cusped and beaded apron, the legs joined to the frame by tapering dovetail housing joins surmounting long beaded mouldings, joined by four typically ascending stretchers from front to back rail, the underside with the original pair of transverse braces but built up for a hard matted seat.

Provenance: Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 13 may 2015