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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION
~1645
A HUANGHUALI 'FOUR-CORNERS-EXPOSED OFFICIAL'S HAT'
ARMCHAIR, SICHUTOUGUANMAOYI
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The shaped crestrail is supported on curved backsplat and rear posts, above the mat
seat set in a rectangular frame. The whole is raised on legs of round section and joined by
stepped stretchers, the feet clad in metal sabots.
45 in. (114.3 cm.) high, 21º in. (53.9 cm.) wide, 23Ω in. (59.6 cm.) deep

$80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE:
Grace Wu Bruce Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, 5 March 1996.
A similar example dated to the seventeenth century, and also with arm rails supported
on single curved tapering vertical posts, is illustrated by Wang and Evarts, Masterpieces
From the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 48.
See, also, the similarly proportioned chair sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September
2013, lot 1565, and another example sold at The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth
Part I: Masterworks: Including Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art,
Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, Christie’s New York, 17 March 2015, lot 50.

十七/十八世紀 黃花梨四出頭官帽椅

(another view)