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The Qing Court Collection, Palace Museum, Beijing

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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE HUANGHUALI LOW-BACK Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent.
ARMCHAIR, MEIGUIYI The collection was formed by the grandfather of the former owner
17th century who was the Assistant Commissioner, Shanghai Municipal Police,
The chair with a rectangular top rail mortised and tenoned to the 1919-1928. His father was a Protestant missionary in China. The family
stiles, inset with a central reticulated panel finely carved with a pair of returned to England shortly after the Second World War.
sinuous and confronted chilong, the stiles continuing through the seat
frame and extending as the back legs, the arms mortise and tenon 來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今。本拍品前任藏家之祖父曾
to the stiles and posts supporting a shou shaped strut on each side, 於1919至1928年任上海公共租界工部局警務處副官，其父為一名新教
continuing through the seat and extending as the front legs, the hard 傳教士；第二次世界大戰爆發後，舉家回到英格蘭。
cane seat bordered by a horizontal stretcher set with vertical pillar-
shaped struts below, the plain aprons joined to the front legs by a
shaped footrest.
82cm (32 2/8in) high x 58cm (22 7/8in) wide x 45cm (17 6/8in) deep.

£50,000 - 80,000
CNY440,000 - 700,000

十七世紀 黃花梨玫瑰椅

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