A pair of jichimu yoke-back armchairs Late Ming – early Qing dynasty | 明末至清初鸂鶒木四出頭官帽椅一對

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Property from an Important Private Collection

A pair of jichimu yoke-back armchairs

Late Ming – early Qing dynasty

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明末至清初鸂鶒木四出頭官帽椅一對

each with a curved, protruding crest rail supported on a S-shaped back splat and slender rear posts, the back splat comprising three panels, the top with a raised square panel, the middle with a rectangular plain panel revealing the highly figured, feathery grain of the wood, above an arched beaded apron, the armrails terminating in round outscrolled handgrips supported on elegantly curved front posts with shaped spandrels, the legs joined by narrow beaded aprons, stretchers and a footrest at the front

58 by 47 by h. 112 cm

Collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, California.
Christie's New York, 19th September 1996, lot 31.

Sarah Handler, 'A Yokeback Chair for Sitting Tall', Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Spring 1993, p. 19, figs 25, 25a.
Wang Shixiang and Curtis Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, cat. no. 24.
Wang Shixiang and Yuan Quanyou, Ming shi jiaju cuizhen / Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1997, cat. no. 14.

A pair of jichimu yoke-back armchairs Late Ming – early Qing dynasty | 明末至清初 鸂鶒木四出頭官帽椅一對

A pair of jichimu yoke-back armchairs Late Ming – early Qing dynasty | 明末至清初鸂鶒木四出頭官帽椅一對