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A PAIR OF IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI YOKE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, SICHUTOUGUANMAOYI
17TH CENTURY
The yoke-back armchairs are constructed of fine huanghuali, each ‘official’s hat’ toprail with strongly swept-back ends supported on round corner posts which continue through to the back legs. The well matched backsplats are flanked at the sides by openwork ruyi-scroll flanges, pierced and exquisitely carved in deep and layered technique from both sides with a ruyi-shaped cartouche enclosing auspicious emblems surrounding a qilin on one and two mythical animals on the other. The out-scrolled arms supported on sinuous tapering stiles and curved front posts with beaded cloud spandrels continue through the rectangular frame of the soft mat seat to form the front legs, which joined in front by beaded scrolling aprons and long flange spandrelscarved with dragons, lotus buds, ruyi and clouds, with similarly carved aprons and spandrels on all four sides, and with a shaped footrest and stepped stretchers, each with a curvilinear apron carved with dragon heads or leafy tendrils .
47 in. (119.5 cm.) high, 24 13/16 in. (63 cm.) wide, 21 7/16 in. (54.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Eastern Pacific Co. (Hei Hung Lu), Hong Kong
Giesle Croes, Brussels, 1986/87
Robert Hatifield Ellsworth, Hong Kong, 1989
Literature
B. Flynn, ‘Chinese Furniture in Two Columbian Exhibitions : 1893 and 1992’, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Spring 1993, pp.48-51, fig.4
C. Evarts, ‘Best of the Best’ An Exhibition of Ming Furniture form Private Collections, Arts of Asia, May-June 1995, pp. 135-141, no. 5
Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, p. 12, fig.3
Exhibited
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1991, cat.pp.485-486, no.345
Best of the Best: An Exhibition of Ming Furniture from Private Collections, Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1994
The Radiant Ming, 1368-1644 through the Min Chiu Society Collection, Hong Kong, 2015, cat.pp. 292-293, no. 224
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Please note the provenance of this lot is:
Eastern Pacific Co. (Hei Hung Lu), Hong Kong
Giesle Croes, Brussels, 1986/87
Robert Hatifield Ellsworth, Hong Kong, 1989
請注意本拍品的來源為：
東泰公司（黑洪祿），香港
Giesle Croes，布鲁塞尔，1986/87年
安思遠舊藏，香港，1989年