Smith & Singer
263

A pair of low-back armchairs Meiguiyi and a matching side table, 19th/20th century

(3)

Estimate $12,000 – $18,000

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the heavy blackwood resembling zitan, each chair with a straight crestrail continuing through rounded corners to the back posts, enclosing a rectangular openwork panel carved with a ruyi-shaped panel flanked by scrolling dragons, the straight arms framed on three sides by an inset shaped panel carved with similar motifs, joined to the seat with pierced dragon roundels, the legs joined by a shaped and beaded apron carved with dragons and scrolls and with stepped stretchers; the table with rectangular top above a gallery joined by struts and the legs with stretchers

(3)
chairs 87 cm high, 61 cm wide, 45.5 cm deep; table 71.5 cm high, 42 cm wide, 35 cm deep

  • Lot Sold $6,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $7,320 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

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Catalogue Notes

A pair of chairs from the same set sold Mossgreen, Melbourne,16-17 June 2014, lot 272.
Compare with a very similar chair in huanghuali dated to the Ming dynasty, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, no. 43, pp 82-83

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