A rare ornately carved huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair 17th / 18th Century the five-member crestrail terminating in rounded hand-grips, set on rounded straight backposts and 'goose-neck' front posts continuing through the seat frame to the straight legs of circular section secured by lobed and cusped aprons on all sides, secured by equal-height foot-stretchers on three sides, the rounded seat-frame superbly carved along all four sides, with a beaded upper edge, pair of confronting qilong with single-horned feline heads and bifurcated tails, each tugging at a central lingzhi spray with their mouths, the three other sides with vegetal scrolls and grass sprays, with mock-metal cusped strapwork molding at the corners 40 1/2 by 24 1/2 by 19 in., 102.8 by 62.2 by 48.2 cm
A rare ornately carved huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair 17th / 18th Century the five-member crestrail terminating in rounded hand-grips, set on rounded straight backposts and 'goose-neck' front posts continuing through the seat frame to the straight legs of circular section secured by lobed and cusped aprons on all sides, secured by equal-height foot-stretchers on three sides, the rounded seat-frame superbly carved along all four sides, with a beaded upper edge, pair of confronting qilong with single-horned feline heads and bifurcated tails, each tugging at a central lingzhi spray with their mouths, the three other sides with vegetal scrolls and grass sprays, with mock-metal cusped strapwork molding at the corners 40 1/2 by 24 1/2 by 19 in., 102.8 by 62.2 by 48.2 cm
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