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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN FAMILY COLLECTION
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AN IMPORTANT IMPERIAL ZITAN ARMCHAIR
YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795) EXHIBITED:
Knoxville, Tennessee, McLung Museum, 2005-2013.
The back splat is carved in openwork in the form of a vase and
University North Carolina - Chapel Hill, The Ackland Art Museum, "Court and
decorated in the European Rococo style below the scrolled headcrest
Capital," 31 May - 10 December, 2017.
and elegantly curved crestrail and curvilinear arms, fitted with
openwork spandrels carved as scrolling leaves. The zitan seat is fitted in
美國家族珍藏
a rectangular frame above a narrow waist and shaped aprons centered
by a stylized lotus flower amidst acanthus scroll. The whole is raised on 清雍正/乾隆 御製紫檀雕西番蓮紋有束腰帶托泥扶手椅
elegant cabriole legs, carved at the top with shells, and supported on 來源:
small ball feet above the rectangular floor stretcher.
Robert Gray Peck 中校(1879-1956年)，後家族傳承。
44 in. (111.8 cm.) high, 27º in. (69.2 cm.) wide, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) deep
展覽:
$500,000-700,000 諾克斯維爾，田納西州， McLung 博物館， 2005-2013年。
北卡羅萊納州立大學教堂山分校， Ackland 藝術博物館， Court and
PROVENANCE: Capital，2017年5月31日-12月10日。
Lt. Col. Robert Gray Peck (1879-1956), and thence by descent.

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