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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
18-Jul-2018
Lot No.
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Description:
A huanghuali and hardwood Qing-style horseshoe-back armchair Quanyi, 19th/20th century, with a rounded crestrail set on straight front and back posts, flanked by shaped beaded edge spandrels and tapering side posts, the out-scrolled terminals carved with openwork foliate scrolls, the rectangular back splat enclosing a pierced foliate panel and dragon cartouche and flanked with similarly pierced spandrels, the rectangular mat seat within a mitred frame supported on four slightly curved square section legs on cloud-scroll feet with pierced spandrels above a platform base, 98 cm high, 57 cm wide, 64 cm deep, Compare with a zitan armchair dated to the early Qing dynasty in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, p 102 and 103, pl 56.
Estimate:
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Price:
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Category:
Oriental: Furniture