Page 140 - 2019 September 13th Christie's New York Important Chinese Works of Art

PROPERTY FROM THE RUSTIC STUDIO COLLECTION
~878
A VERY RARE AND SUPERB SET OF
FOUR HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK
ARMCHAIRS, QUANYI
17TH CENTURY
Each has a continuous curving crestrail
terminating in short, out-swept hooks that is
supported on an elegant C-shaped splat fnely
carved with a ruyi head roundel, and rear posts
which continue through the seat to form the legs.
The hard mat seat is set within the rectangular
frame above plain humpback stretchers ftted with
vertical struts. The whole is raised on legs of round
section joined by stepped stretchers and a foot s and a foot
rest at the front.
37Ω in. (95.3 cm.) high, 23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide, cm.) wide,
17æ in. (45.1 cm.) deep
( (4)4)
$800,000-1,200,000

PROVENANCE
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1997.
十七世紀 黃花梨如意紋圈椅四張成堂堂