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A ROSEWOOD ‘OFFICIAL’S HAT’ Qing Dynasty
YOKEBACK ARMCHAIR, GUANMAOYI The waisted table with low-relief scroll motifs
Late Qing Dynasty or later at the apron and top of legs, the long thin
With a scrolled crest above a gently curved legs connected with a stretcher at the feet,
backsplat, with out-scrolled arms supported the table top inset with a lighter wood panel.
by s-shaped stiles, the legs joined by an 95.5cm (37 1/2in) x 53cm (20 3/4) x 114cm
aproned footrail and back stretcher, with a (44 3/4in)
shaped beaded apron to the front. 117cm (46 £3,000 - 5,000
in) x 53.5cm (21) x 43.5cm (17 1/4in) CNY29,000 - 48,000
£1,500 - 2,000 HK$35,000 - 59,000
CNY15,000 - 19,000
HK$18,000 - 24,000 285
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118 | BONHAMS TWO ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIRS
19th/20th century
Each with gently curved, reticulated angular
scrolling back framing a central splat finely
carved in shallow relief, the first with two seal
script characters, the second with flowering
peonies, the first chair with a reticulated
angular scrolling apron to the front and solid
beaded apron to the sides, the second with
reticulated angular scrolling apron to three
sides, solid to the back, each chair supported
by four rectangular corner feet with plain
straight stretchers. The first: 94.5cm (37
1/4in) x 41.5cm (15 1/8in) x 52cm (20 1/2in);
the second: 94cm (37in) x 41.5cm (16 1/8in) x
53cm (20 7/8in) (2).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY15,000 - 19,000
HK$18,000 - 24,000
