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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
~1659
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI 'OFFICIAL'S HAT' ARMCHAIRS,
SICHUTOUGUANMAOYI
19TH CENTURY PROVENANCE:
Each chair has a straight top rail raised on a plain back splat and curved Robert and William Drummond, New York.
rear posts, above the straight arms supported on recessed, curved front Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, #F105 and 106.
posts. The mat seat is set in a rectangular frame above plain aprons Acquired from the above in 1974.
and spandrels. The whole is raised on molded legs of square section
and joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest at the front. LITERATURE:
W. M. Drummond, “Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early
37æ in. (95.8 cm.) high, 23º in. (59.1 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48.3 cm.) deep (2)
Scholarship, 1969,” Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society,
Summer 1993, pp. 58-9, pl. 3.
$40,000-60,000
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