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AN IMPORTANT AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF FOUR Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 -
HUANGHUALI FOLDING CHAIRS, JIAOYI 1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order
16th/17th century of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius
Each with a narrow crest-rail supported on slender, gracefully curved IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Maragaretha d’Austria
rear posts flanking the splats with chilong roundels and carved with Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
cusped narrow flanges on the sides, with a stringed seat between the According to the collection inventory list, acquired in Beijing.
front and back stretchers, the hinged rounded square-section legs
terminating in rectangular base stretchers, the footrests mounted with Published and Illustrated: Gustav Ecke, ‘Wandlungen Des
an openwork iron plaque with a design of lozenges, fitted cushions. Faltstuhls: Bemerkungen zur Geschichte der Euraischen Stuhlform’
Each 94cm (37in) high x 58.5cm (23in) wide x 81cm (31 7/8in) deep. (4). (‘Development of the Folding Chair: Observations on Euroasian Chair
Forms’), in Monumenta Serica, vol.9, 1944, pp.34-52, pl.I (a) (one of
£150,000 - 200,000 four) and pl.II (a) (detail of medallion on splat) and with specific mention
CNY1,300,000 - 1,800,000 in pp.35-36, 38, 43, 45-47, and 51.

十六/十七世紀 黃花梨團龍紋交椅 四張成堂

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