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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
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A PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED RED LACQUER ARMCHAIRS An identical pair of red lacquer armchairs is currently in the Minneapolis
18TH CENTURY Institute of Art and illustrated by R. Jacobsen and N. Grindley in Classical
Chinese Furniture, Chicago, 1999, pp. 74-5, pl. 19, where it is dated to the late
Each has a curved, scroll-form splat flanked by stepped back rails and
archaistic spandrels and is decorated with leafy bamboo stalks, above a eighteenth century. The more elaborate scrolling elements and luxurious
rectangular seat further decorated with a chime encompassed by floral scroll. use of gilt painted decoration reflects the changing tastes of the Qianlong
The whole is raised on legs of round section joined by scrolling humpback emperor away from the more restrained Ming-period furniture.
apron and stepped stretchers.
Another similarly dated lacquer armchair sold at Sotheby's London, 17
42 in. (106.7 cm) high, 24º in. (61.6 cm) wide, 18º in. (46.4 cm.) deep (2) October 1978, lot 243, and is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture,
Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1983, p. 189.
$20,000-30,000

紐約私人珍藏
PROVENANCE:
Victor Skrebneski (1929-2020) Collection, Chicago.
Barling of Mount Street Ltd., London, 9 December 1991. 清十八世紀 漆木描金竹紋扶手椅一對
來源:
Victor Skrebneski (1929-2020年) 珍藏， 芝加哥。
Barling of Mount Street Ltd.，倫敦，1991年12月9日。

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