A pair of huanghuali Qing-style armchairs, Quanyi, and a side table, 20th century

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

each chair with a rounded crestrail set on straight front and back posts, flanked by shaped beaded edge spandrels and tapering side posts, the out-scrolled terminals carved with openwork foliate scrolls, the rectangular back splat enclosing a pierced ruyi-shaped foliate panel and flanked with similarly pierced spandrels, the rectangular panelled seat within a mitred frame supported on four slightly curved square section legs on cloud-scroll feet with pierced spandrels above a platform base; the rectangular table en suite

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the chairs each 98.5 cm high, 72 cm wide, 68 cm deep; the table 84 cm high, 58 cm wide, 43 cm deep

• Lot Sold $37,000 (Hammer Price)
• $45,140 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Yue Kee Curio Co., Hong Kong
Private Collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above on 13 March 1990

Compare with a zitan armchair dated to the early Qing dynasty in The Palace Museum Collection, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, p 102 and 103, pl 56.

Condition Report

One chair - the single seat panel with a fine crack from the left edge approx 20 cm. Slight shrinkage gaps to joins of seat frame. The rear seat frame with 6cm inset in back right corner. Other chair - the two panel seat with similar shrinkage to edges. Possible infill to front stretcher approx 3cm. Table - top panel with shrinkage to frame, minor scratching on surface, slight gap to join with apron and very small infill at one corner. One leg with infilled fissure on inside of leg. Otherwise generally good condition.

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