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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION
~796
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS The horseshoe-back armchair is one of four types of Chinese chairs, and
17TH-18TH CENTURY is one of the most popular forms within Chinese furniture. The form is
Each chair has a C-form backsplat carved with a ruyi head below the gracefully distinguished by a gracefully curving crestrail that terminates in dramatic
curving crestrail terminating in out-swept hooks. The mat seat is set within a out-swept hooks. For a discussion of this chair shape, see R. H. Ellsworth,
rectangular frame above the carved, beaded apron and spandrels. The whole Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasty,
is raised on round-section legs joined by stepped stretchers at the sides and a New York, 1971, pp. 86-87, and Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese
footrest at the front. Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 43-45.
39æ in. (101 cm.) high, 24¬ in. (62.5 cm.) wide, 24Ω in. (62.2 cm.) deep (2) A pair of huanghuali horseshoe-back armchairs, similarly decorated with a ruyi-
head medallion on the backsplat, and formerly of the Walter P. Rundle collection,
$70,000-90,000 New York, was sold at Christie’s New York, 24-25 March 2022, lot 1992.

PROVENANCE:
Paul Chao, New York, 1993.
重要紐約私人珍藏
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨圈椅一對
來源:
Paul Chao, 紐約, 1993年

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTION
~795
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI SLOPING-STILE CABINETS The present pair of cabinets, with their simple lines and elegant forms,
represents one of the most popular and successful designs in Chinese
18TH CENTURY furniture construction widely used in cabinet making throughout the Ming
Each cabinet has a pair of doors set around a central stile, opening to reveal the and Qing dynasties.
shelved interior, and is fitted into a tapering frame joined by plain aprons and
spandrels. Known as yuanjiaogui (round-corner tapered cabinet), the stiles of the
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high, 26æ in. (68 cm.) wide, 16º in. (41.3 cm.) deep (2) cabinet are recessed from the corner of the top and slope gently outward in a
subtle splay which gives the cabinet the sense of balance and stability.
$50,000-70,000 The sizes of this type of cabinets range from those suitable for kang table
tops to much larger ones made for storage purposes. A round-corner tapered
PROVENANCE: cabinet of similar proportions but made with huanghuali and nanmu, was sold
Sotheby's New York, 24 April 1987, lot 557. at Christie’s new York, 15 September 2011, lot 1339.

重要紐約私人珍藏
清十八世紀 黃花梨圓角櫃一對
來源:
紐約蘇富比, 1987年4月24日, 拍品編號557

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