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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTOR
~1015
A RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS Huanghuali horseshoe-back armchairs can be found in numerous public
17TH CENTURY and private collections, but few examples combine the elegant curving lines
Each chair has sweeping crestrails that terminate in out-swept hooks supported of the arms, back splat, and supporting stiles with this beautifully-grained
by the plain curved splat above the mat seat and beaded apron carved with and rich material. For a discussion of this form, see R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese
conjoined leafy scroll and shaped spandrels. The legs of rounded square section Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties,
are joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest above a plain apron. New York, 1971, pp. 86-7 and Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese
Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 43-5.
37æ in. (95.9 cm.) high, 25Ω in. (64.7 cm.) wide, 20Ω in. (52.1 cm.) deep (2)
A single huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair with a carved ruyi-head
medallion on the splat, dated to the 17th century, was sold at Christie’s New
$200,000-250,000 York, 23-24 September 2021, lot 997.

PROVENANCE:
Ho Cheung Antique Furniture, Hong Kong, 1994. 美४私́珍藏
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