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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A PAIR OF HONGMU ARMCHAIRS AND
FOOT RESTS
19TH CENTURY

Each has a tall back splat carved with
chilong scrollwork enclosed within a shaped
medallion and is framed by the openwork
back and side rails carved as archaistic scrolls.
The wide rectangular seat is above a plain,
beaded apron carved with scrollwork. The
legs are of square section and are joined
by a straight stretcher and terminate in
scroll-form feet. The foot rest has a lattice
openwork top set in the rectangular frame
above a plain apron, supported on squat legs
terminating in shaped feet.

Chairs 38º in. (97.2 cm.) high, 26º in. (66.7

cm.) wide, 20æ in. (52.7 cm.) deep; foot rests

4æ in. (12.1 cm.) high, 26º in. (66.7 cm.) 1349

wide, 13Ω in. (35 cm.) deep (2)

$6,000-8,000
清十九世紀 紅木螭龍紋扶手椅配腳踏一對

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A HONGMU ARMCHAIR
18TH-19TH CENTURY

The back splat is carved with a bat
suspending a chime above pairs of bats, and
fanked by archaistic scroll-form back and
side rails set with openwork, scroll-form
spandrels above the rectangular seat and
narrow waist. The whole is raised on beaded
legs of square section set with openwork
corner spandrels and joined by a foot rest in
the front and beaded stretchers at the sides
and back, all above shaped aprons.

39¿ in. (99.4 cm.) high, 23º in. (59.1 cm.)
wide, 18º in. (46.4 cm.) deep

$4,000-6,000

清十八/十九世紀 紅木「福慶」紋扶手椅

1350

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