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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
~1660
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS,
QUANYI
19TH CENTURY
PROVENANCE:
Each chair has sweeping crestrails that terminate in out-swept hooks and Walter P. Rundle Collection, New York.
are supported by the C-shaped splat carved at the center with a ruyi-head Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1-2 May 1958, lot 361.
medallion above the mat seat and carved, beaded apron and shaped Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, #F-104.
spandrels. The whole is raised on legs of round section joined by stepped Acquired from the above in 1974.
stretchers and a foot rest at the front.
39º in. (99.7 cm.) high, 24æ in. (62.9 cm.) wide, 20æ in. (52.7 cm.) deep (2) LITERATURE:
W.M. Drummond, Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early
Scholarship, 1969," Journal of Classical Chinese Furniture Society,
$50,000-70,000 Summer 1993, p. 58, pl. 2.
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