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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 3, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3622 | $****** - ****** | A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI HIGH YOKEBACK ARMCHAIRS |
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121.3 x 60.4 x 45.3 cm (47.76 x 23.78 x 17.83 in)
Collection of Mr and Mrs Robert P. Piccus.
Christie's New York, 18th September 1997, lot 40 (one of the pair).
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.
Curtis Evarts, Classic Chinese Furniture in the Piccus Collection, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Autumn 1992, no. 12.
Sarah Handler, A Yokeback Chair for Sitting Tall, Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Spring 1993, no. 16.
Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Furniture. Wenfang Works of Art, Hong Kong, 2003, cat. no. 3.
each with the shaped top rail with a small head-rest and gently everted ends, the plain S-shaped back splat tongue-and-grooved into the underside of the top rail and tenoned to the back member of the seat frame, the two black splats with active patterns cut from the same piece of wood, the stiles tenoned into the top rail and, like the front posts, pass through the seat forming the legs, the elongated S-shaped arms, mortised and tenoned into the stiles and pipe-joined to the posts, supported by tapering S-shaped braces of circular section, the mitred, mortised and tenoned seat frame with exposed tenons on the short rails and with two transverse braces underneath, the edge of the seat frame moulds downward and inward to end in a narrow flat band, drilled for soft seat construction fitted with old matting, all above a plain straight apron butt-joined to the underside of the seat, tongue-and-grooved into the legs and tenoned to the footrail, the side aprons similarly constructed whilst the back apron left plain and high, the legs joined by a shaped footrail in front, with rectangular side stretchers and an oval one in the back, all with exposed tenons, the footrest and stretchers with plain shaped aprons below
