each with a rectangular top rail decorated with a series of mouldings, mitred, mortised and tennoned to the stiles, the stiles continuing through the seat frame and extending as the back legs, the arms mitre, mortise and tenon to the stiles and posts, the posts continuing through the seat and extending as the front legs, the arch-shaped beaded-edged apron on the chair back tongue-and-grooved into the top rail and stiles and tennoned to a horizontal stretcher with vertical pillar-shaped struts below, the surface detailed with angular scrolls, similarly shaped and decorated arched aprons, stretchers and vertical struts set below the armrests, the posts, stiles, armrests and horizontal stretchers similarly decorated with a series of mouldings as the top rail, the seat frame of standard mitre, mortise and tennoned construction, supported by two curved transverse stretchers underneath, the edge of the seat frame similarly moulded as the posts and stiles with exposed tenons on the short sides, cusped aprons tongue-and-grooved to the legs and butt-joined to the underside of the seat frame, the front beaded-edged apron carved in low relief with elegantly meandering tendrils, the side aprons similarly bordered with a beaded edge, the back apron left plain and high, the front legs joined by a shaped footrest atop a plain shaped apron, the legs joined by moulded stretchers, all with exposed tenons, the side stretchers with plain shaped aprons underneath, the feet fitted with metal mounts.

Provenance: Kai-Yin Lo Collection, Hong Kong.