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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A PAIR OF LACQUERED AND INCISED SOFTWOOD ARMCHAIRS PROVENANCE
18TH-19TH CENTURY
Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1350.
Each has a curved, scroll-form splat fanked by stepped back rails and
archaistic spandrels and is carved and painted with landscape and foral See a very similar armchair dated to the second half of the 18th century,
panels reserved on a painted red wan diaper ground. The rectangular seat is sold at Sotheby’s London, 17 October 1978, lot 243, and illustrated by M.
carved with fve diamond-shaped panels and further carved with foral scroll Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1983, p. 189.
above the shaped apron carved with ruyi-head and archaistic scroll. The whole See, also, a similar pair of gilt-decorated brown lacquer armchairs currently
is raised on legs of round section joined by stepped stretchers. in the Minneapolis Institute of Art and illustrated by R. Jacobsen and N.
Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago, 1999, pp. 74-5, pl. 19.
42 æ in. (108.7 cm.) high, 24¿ in. (61.2 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48.2 cm.) deep (2)
$30,000-50,000 清十八/十九世紀 彩漆木刻花卉紋太師椅成對
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