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ANOTHER PROPERTY PROVENANCE:
2029 Mr. and Mrs. Franklin F. Kuo Collection, Hawaii.
A HUANGHUALI ‘OFFICIAL’S HAT’ ARMCHAIR, GUANMAOYI
17TH CENTURY LITERATURE:
The chair is constructed from huanghuali and has a shaped crestrail R.H. Ellsworth, Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections,
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1982, no. 38.
supported by the elegant S-shaped splat fnely carved with a ruyi
These two unusual chairs were combined, probably in the early 20th
medallion and the curved rear posts which continue to form the century, to form a pair of chairs made of mixed huanghuali and jichimu
timber. When one of the two chairs was published by R.H. Ellsworth in
back legs. The arm rails are supported on slender standing stiles and 1982, it was described as ‘A High Yokeback Armchair made from two
different kinds of rosewood’. Since the time it was published, it has
extend beyond the front posts. The rectangular frame encloses a mat subsequently been established that the pair was actually two chairs, one in
huanghuali and the other in jichimu that had been combined to create a
seat above shaped, beaded aprons carved with foral scroll and beaded pair of chairs featuring an interesting combination of contrasting woods.
spandrels. The legs are of round section and are joined by stepped 明末清初 黃花梨官帽椅及雞翅木官帽椅各一張
stretchers and a foot rest, below plain aprons and spandrels. Together
with a matching jichimu chair, 19th-20th century.
Huanghuali armchair: 46Ω in. (118.2 cm.) high, 22¿ in. (56.2 cm.)
wide, 19Ω in. (49.5 cm.) deep; jichimu armchair: 46º in. (117.6 cm.)
high, 22 in. (55.9 cm.) wide, 19Ω in. (49.5 cm.) deep (2)
$150,000-200,000
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