A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS

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$ 50 000
Date de l'enchèreClassic
25.03.2022 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 1192 | A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS

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.





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