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