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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
~829
A RARE HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIR Horseshoe-back armchairs of this type are represented in many public
17TH-18TH CENTURY and private collections. The major distinguishing feature, other than the
form of these chairs, is the decorative carving usually found on the splat
The graceful three-part crestrail is raised on an S-curved backsplat carved
with a ruyi-medallion enclosing a pair of chilong confronting a flaming pearl and the apron, such as a ruyi medallion. The present chair has the rare
above the mat seat and cusped, beaded aprons and beaded spandrels. The design of a pair of chilong confronted on a flaming pearl within a shaped
whole is raised on round-section legs joined by stepped stretchers and a medallion. A single huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair with similarly
footrest at the front. carved splat was sold at Christie's New York, The Collection of Robert
Hatfield Ellsworth Part II: Chinese Furniture, Scholar’s Objects and
38º in. (97.2 cm.) high, 25º in. (64.2 cm.) wide, 21 in. (53.4 cm.) deep Chinese Paintings, 17 March 2015, lot 139 and illustrated R. H. Ellsworth,
Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing
$60,000-80,000 Dynasties, New York, 1971, p.127, pl. 18.

PROVENANCE:
Christie's New York, 4-5 September 2002, lot 137.
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨螭龍紋圈椅
來源:
紐約佳士得, 2002年9月4-5日, 拍品137號。

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