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THE PROPERTY OF A FRENCH FAMILY 法國家族藏品
Lots 327 - 330

327 TP Y
A RARE HUANGHUALI LOW-BACK ARM CHAIR, MEIGUIYI
17th/18th century
With rounded corner top rail and arm rests, hidden mortise and
tenoned to the stiles running through the seat to become the front and
back legs, the back apron elegantly carved with key-fret and beaded
borders resting on a horizontal stretcher tenoned to the back rails and
front posts and to the seat by two pillar struts, the seat of standard
mitre, mortise-and-tenon construction with exposed tenons on the
sides and drilled for a soft seat with two transverse stretchers and
tongue and grooved and butt-joined to the shaped and beaded apron
extending down the sides of the front rails and resting on the horizontal
foot rest, the plain, u-shaped side and back aprons set above the
stepped stretchers with exposed tenons.
85cm (33 1/2in) high x 55cm (21 5/8in) wide x 44.5cm (17 1/2in) deep

£120,000 - 150,000
CNY1,000,000 - 1,300,000

十七/十八世紀 黃花梨拐子龍紋玫瑰椅

Provenance: a French private collection

來源： 法國私人收藏

Low back arm chairs had their antecedent in the Song dynasty with
chairs made from one piece of bamboo where the back and side
panels shared the same height. See R.Jacobsen, Classical Chinese
Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999,
nos.15-18, p.66. See also S.Handler, ‘Roses, bamboo and the
Lowback Armchair’, Orientations, Vol.29, no.7, 1998, p.12.

A related pair of huanghuali meiguiyi chairs, 17th/18th century, was sold
in our New York rooms, 12 September 2016, lot 6008. Other examples
of related huanghuali chairs, were 17th/18th century, sold at Sotheby’s,
Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3249 and 7 October, 2015, lot 128.

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