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AN EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI LOW-BACK
CONTINUOUS YOKEBACK ARMCHAIR, NANGUANMAOYI
17th century
The highly-curved round-cornered top-rail pipe joined to the stiles,
which continue through the seat frame to become the back legs,
the elongated round-cornered S-shaped arms mitred, mortised and
tenoned to the stiles and pipe-joined to the posts, similarly continuing
through the seat to become the front legs, the sockets in the seat
frame and the underside of the arms supported by a pair of tapering
S-shaped circular supports, the back splat with two beaded-edged
stretchers mortised and tenoned to the underside of the top rail and
the back rail of the seat frame, further divided into three sections
with a pair of horizontal beads-edged mitred stretchers, the top
inset with a reticulated panel decorated with a foliate design above a
central burlwood panel and a cusped leaf-shaped apron below the
lower stretcher, the seat frame of standard mitre, mortise and tenon
construction with the edge slightly curving and tenons exposed on
the short rails, a plain apron with mitred spandrels butt-joined to the
underside and tongue-and-grooved to the legs beneath the seat, the
sides and back with similar aprons, the legs joined in front by a shaped
footrest above an apron, each side fitted with a pair of oval stretchers
flattened on the underside, the back with a similar single stretcher.
93cm high (36 5/8in) x 56.3cm (22 1/8in) wide x 45.3cm (18in) deep.

£300,000 - 500,000
CNY2,700,000 - 4,500,000

十七世紀 黃花梨攢靠背南官帽椅

Provenance: 來源：
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong 香港古董商嘉木堂
The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Renaissance, California 中國古典家具博物館，美国加州Renaissance
Christie’s New York, 19 September 1996, lot 36 紐約佳士得，1996年9月19日，拍品編號36
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 103 香港蘇富比，2016年4月6日，拍品編號103
An important European private collection 歐洲重要私人收藏

Published and Illustrated: 出版著錄：
Wang Shixiang and C.Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of 王世襄及柯惕思，《中國古典家具博物館館藏精品》，芝加哥及舊金
Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, 山，1995年，頁68 – 69
pp.68-69

Lot 24 illistrated by Wang Shixiang and C.Evarts, Masterpieces
from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and
San Francisco, 1995, pp.68-69
王世襄及柯惕思，《中國古典家具博物館館藏精品》，芝加哥
及舊金山，1995年，頁68 – 69

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