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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF
WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON
946
A VERY RARE LACQUERED SOFTWOOD
HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIR, QUANYI
SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The chair has a sweeping crest rail supported by
an S-shaped splat with a lower gilt-lacquered,
reticulated panel, and by the elaborately carved,
standing struts and the spandrel-enhanced posts
that continue through the gilt-decorated seat
to form the legs which are joined by a beaded
apron and stretchers on the sides. The whole
is embellished in the Japanese manner in gold
lacquer with foral scrolls and landscapes in
hiramakie and takamakie.
40 ½ in. (102.8 cm.) high, 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) wide,
26 ½ in. (67.3 cm.) deep
$30,000-50,000

The present chair belongs to a very small group p
of furniture constructed in China and decorated d
in the Japanese manner. Other chairs belonging g
to this group include a pair from the collection
of William Cornelius Van Horne, bequeathed to o
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and a pair in n
the Los Angeles County Art Museum gifted by
Lynda and Stewart Resnick (M.2013.53.1-.2) and nd
published and exhibited by Nicholas Grindley,
‘November 1999’, cat. No. 10. Another chair from m
this group, formerly in the collection of Robert
H. Ellsworth, was sold at Christie’s New York,
17-18 March, 2016, lot 1322. Of the chairs in this s
group, the present chair appears to be the only
one constructed with a gilt-lacquer-decorated
softwood seat, which appears to be original to
its construction, and is not ftted with the more e
commonly seen soft mat seat.
十七世紀下半葉 漆木山水花卉紋圈椅

(detail of back splat)

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