17TH CENTURY

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A Pair of Huanghuali Spindle-Back Armchairs, Meiguiyi
17th century
After a bamboo prototype, each with a straight toprail, supported on round posts extending to the back legs and flanking the round section spindles, with a matching series of spindles bracing rectangular arms, the broad rectanglar frame with soft mat seat supported on legs of round section joined by humpback stretchers with short vertical posts, the base with stepped stretchers and a footrail with narrow apron
37in. (94cm.) high, 22½in. (57cm.), 18½in. (47cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A similar pair of chairs, but with plain aprons in place of humpback stretchers, sold in these rooms, 21 March 1997, lot 203. Compare, also, the single chair in the Lan Xanmai Collection, illustrated by C. Evarts, et al., Splendour of Style: Classical Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p. 93; and another pair included in Nicholas Grindley, Exhibition at Kate Ganz, New York, March 2000, no. 9.

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