ID 718797
Los 1192 | A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS
Schätzwert
$ 50 000 – 70 000
19TH CENTURY
Each chair has sweeping crestrails that terminate in outswept hooks and are supported by the S-shaped splat carved at the center with a ruyi-head medallion above the mat seat and carved, beaded apron and shaped spandrels. The whole is raised on legs of round section joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest at the front.
39 1⁄4 in. (99.7 cm.) high, 25 1⁄2 in. (64.8 cm.) wide, 22 1⁄2 in. (57.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
Walter P. Rundle Collection, New York.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1-2 May 1958, lot 362.
Robert and William Drummond, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.
Literature
W. M. Drummond, “Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early Scholarship, 1969,” Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Summer 1993, pp. 58-9, pl. 2.
Special notice
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| Material: | Naturholz |
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| Historische Ära: | Qing-Dynastie |
| Herkunftsort: | China, Ostasien, Asien |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Sessel und Stühle |
| Material: | Naturholz |
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| Historische Ära: | Qing-Dynastie |
| Herkunftsort: | China, Ostasien, Asien |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Sessel und Stühle |
| Adresse der Versteigerung |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Vereinigtes Königreich | |
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