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A pair of huanghuali Qing-style armchairs, Quanyi, and a side…
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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
18-Jul-2018
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A pair of huanghuali Qing-style armchairs, Quanyi, and a side table, 20th century, each chair 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 ruyi -shaped foliate panel and flanked with similarly pierced spandrels, the rectangular panelled seat within a mitred frame supported on four slightly curved square section legs on cloud-scroll feet with pierced spandrels above a platform base, the rectangular table en suite, -3, the chairs each 98.5 cm high, 72 cm wide, 68 cm deep, the table 84 cm high, 58 cm wide, 43 cm deep. Provenance: Yue Kee Curio Co., Hong Kong. Private Collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above on 13 March 1990. 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..
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Category:
Oriental: Furniture