A VERY RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI LOW-BACK ARMCHAIRS, FUSHOUYI 17TH CENTURY Each has an elegantly curved top rail carved with high, rounded corners that continue to the curving back posts and extend through the frame of a mat seat to form the rear legs. The back posts are joined by a low horizontal back panel carved in openwork with two confronted dragons flanking lingzhi fungus above a beaded, curvilinear apron with entwining leafy tendrils. Below each elongated S-shaped arm is a stretcher of conforming shape. The legs are joined on the front and sides by beaded curvilinear aprons that continue to form the spandrels. 38 ½ in. (97.8 cm.) high, 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) wide, 18 in. (46 cm.) deep Provenance First: Nicholas Grindley, London, 1993. Second: Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong. The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Fine and Important Classical Chinese Furniture, Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 31. Nicholas Grindley, London, 2002.
A VERY RARE PAIR OF HUANGHUALI LOW-BACK ARMCHAIRS, FUSHOUYI 17TH CENTURY Each has an elegantly curved top rail carved with high, rounded corners that continue to the curving back posts and extend through the frame of a mat seat to form the rear legs. The back posts are joined by a low horizontal back panel carved in openwork with two confronted dragons flanking lingzhi fungus above a beaded, curvilinear apron with entwining leafy tendrils. Below each elongated S-shaped arm is a stretcher of conforming shape. The legs are joined on the front and sides by beaded curvilinear aprons that continue to form the spandrels. 38 ½ in. (97.8 cm.) high, 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) wide, 18 in. (46 cm.) deep Provenance First: Nicholas Grindley, London, 1993. Second: Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong. The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Fine and Important Classical Chinese Furniture, Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 31. Nicholas Grindley, London, 2002.
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