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PROPERTY FROM THE NANCY AND ED ROSENTHAL COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF ZITAN CONTINUOUS HORSESHOE-BACK PROVENANCE
ARMCHAIRS, QUANYI
18TH CENTURY Chan Shing Kee, Hong Kong, November 1994.
Each has a sweeping crestrail supported on an S-shaped backsplat and EXHIBITED
vertical rear and front posts which continue through the rectangular seat to
form the legs, above humpback stretchers ftted with vertical struts. The legs Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art, Brush Clay Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal
are of round section and are joined by stepped stretchers and a foot rest at Collection of Chinese Art, 7 November 2008 - 11 January 2009.
the front.
LITERATURE
35º in. (89.6 cm.) high, 25¿ in. (63.8 cm.) wide, 22Ω in. (57.2 cm.) deep (2)
$300,000-500,000 V. Bower, S. Handler and J. Burris, Brush Clay Wood: The Nancy and Ed
Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2008,
p. 48, fg. 19.
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