Lot 308. A rare ornately carved huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair, 17th-18th Century; 40 1/2 by 24 1/2 by 19 in., 102.8 by 62.2 by 48.2 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 USD. Lot sold 132,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the five-member crestrail terminating in rounded hand-grips, set on rounded straight backposts and 'goose-neck' front posts continuing through the seat frame to the straight legs of circular section secured by lobed and cusped aprons on all sides, secured by equal-height foot-stretchers on three sides, the rounded seat-frame superbly carved along all four sides, with a beaded upper edge, pair of confronting qilong with single-horned feline heads and bifurcated tails, each tugging at a central lingzhi spray with their mouths, the three other sides with vegetal scrolls and grass sprays, with mock-metal cusped strapwork molding at the corners.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, including Property from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 19-20 march 2007