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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

     969

     A SET OF FOUR ZITAN LOW ARMCHAIRS
     QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

     Each chair is carved with a central foral motif enclosed within a shaped medallion and is framed by the
     openwork back and side rails carved as archaistic scrolls. The wide rectangular seat is above a shaped,
     beaded apron carved with scrollwork, and the whole is raised on short, beaded legs of square section
     terminating in scroll-form feet and joined by straight stretchers above plain aprons and spandrels.

     31æ in. (78.1 cm.) high, 44Ω in. (113 cm.) wide, 18√ in. (50.5 cm.) deep                                 (4)
     $120,000-180,000

     PROVENANCE

     Wong Wai Hung, Hong Kong.

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