A HUANGHUALI CONTINUOUS YOKE-BACK SIDE CHAIR EARLY QING DYNASTY |

Estimate

350,000 - 550,000 HKD

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Description

huanghuali
111 by 53.5 by 43 cm, 43 5/8 by 21 by 16 7/8 in.

the shaped crestrail with a curved top rail hidden mortised and tennoned into the stiles diagonally on the corners, a plain S-shaped back splat tongue-and-grooved into the top rail and tennoned into the seat frame, the seat of standard mitre, mortise and tenon construction with exposed tenons above plain aprons, the legs of square section joined by stretchers

Provenance

Grace Wu Bruce, London, 2000.

Catalogue Note

Continuous yoke-back side chairs without armrests are sometimes called yitongbeiyi (‘unity stele’ chairs) because of their similarity to stone steles. See a set of four huanghuali chairs with subtly flaring proportion, published in Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p. 137.