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A PAIR OF HUALI HORSESHOE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, QUANYI Provenance: A European private collection since circa 1980
Each elegantly designed and carved from several members, the top
rail curving down to out-facing hook hand supports, supported on See R H Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, Hardwood Examples of the
sinuous side posts narrowing upwards from the matted seat, the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p.82 for a discussion
backsplats carved in intaglio mirror image with a ruyi-panel enclosing about the way in which a revived interest in Chinese antiquarianism,
an archaistic chilong dragon and young coiling to the left and right, shared by scholarly elites in later 17th century China, came to be
the shaped beaded apron relief-carved with an entwined foliate reflected in the shapes and designs of contemporaneous Chinese
spray, the legs joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest, the well- furniture production.
figured wood overall of pale honey tone. 101cm (40in) high x 61cm
(24in) wide x 47cm (18 1/2in) deep (2). For an earlier pair of elegant but visually comparable huanghuali
chilong-decorated horseshoe armchairs, but dated to the 17th
£10,000 - 15,000 Century, see Bonhams, New Bond Street, ‘The H Collection of
HK$110,000 - 160,000 Chinese Classical Furniture, Archaic Bronzes and Japanese Art’, 13
CNY88,000 - 130,000 May 2021, lot 32; see also the related 17th century armchair, formerly
in the collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, which was sold at Christie’s
New York, 18 March 2015, lot 139.

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