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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
~874
A RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI ‘SOUTHERN OFFICIAL’S HAT’
ARMCHAIRS, NANGUANMAOYI
17TH-18TH CENTURY
Each has a curved crestrail supported on curved rear posts and an S-shaped The ‘southern oficial’s hat’ armchair is one of the most popular forms
splat. The arm rails are supported on slender standing stiles that terminate in in Chinese furniture construction. They difer from the ‘oficial’s hat’
the front posts above the soft mat seat and cusped, beaded aprons and plain, armchair in that their crestrails continue into the back posts as opposed
beaded spandrels. The whole is supported on round-section legs, joined by a to extending beyond them. The continuous line of the crestrail joining into
foot rest at the front and stepped stretchers. the rear upright posts is achieved with a rounded, right angle joint called a
‘pipe-joint,’ which is again used to join the curved arms to the front upright
45 in. (114.3 cm.) high, 23º in. (59 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.7 cm.) deep
posts. A pair of huanghuali ‘southern oficial’s hat’ armchairs of similar
(2)
proportions with shaped aprons and spandrels, dated to the early 17th
$150,000-250,000
century, is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, illustrated by R. Jacobsen and
N. Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
PROVENANCE Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 52-53. Another pair of huanghuali ‘southern oficial’s
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1995. hat’ armchairs, of similar proportions, and fnely inlaid with nanmu roundels
enclosing a curled chilong was sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2012,
lot 1735.
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨南官帽椅一對

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