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A pair of carved hardwood yokeback armchairs, Sichutou…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
29-Oct-2014
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Description:
A pair of carved hardwood yokeback armchairs, Sichutou Guanmaoyi, Qing dynasty possibly zitan, each with an elegantly scrolling crestrail terminating in rounded ends, joined to slender curved stiles and a broad S-curved rectangular splat flanked at the sides by shaped flanges and pierced and carved with a ruyi -shaped cartouche enclosing a coiled dragon above a pierced rectangular panel of a qilin, rocks and clouds, the serpentine outline arms with rounded ends supported on tapering stiles and curved front posts with shaped brackets, and with a hardwood seat recessed within the moulded frame above a shaped and beaded apron carved with foliate scrolls, all resting on cylindrical legs joined by four ascending stretchers (2) 119 cm high, 68 cm wide, 52 cm deep. Other Notes: Yokeback chairs, or 'official's hat armchairs' as they are termed in China were first depicted in Buddhist contexts as early as the mid-sixth century and twelfth century pottery yokeback chairs are found in Jin dynasty tombs. Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Hong Kong 2001. pp. 43-59, devotes a chapter to the form and comments that the ''hardwood yokeback chair, symbol of power and prestige, crossed over class boundaries''.
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Unclassified