HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung: Part 1 | Evening

HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung: Part 1 | Evening

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 11. A very rare and outstanding huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, jiaoyi, Late Ming dynasty | 明末 黃花梨圓後背交椅.

A very rare and outstanding huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, jiaoyi, Late Ming dynasty | 明末 黃花梨圓後背交椅

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October 8, 01:37 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000,000 - 15,000,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

A very rare and outstanding huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair, jiaoyi, 

Late Ming dynasty

明末 黃花梨圓後背交椅


of elegant and generous proportions, the horseshoe back surmounting a plain splat flanked by cusped and beaded spandrels, the arm supported on S-curved and circular-section arm posts which continue through the seat frame forming the front legs, the posts with shaped spandrels and change to square-section at the crook and at the pivot of the legs, further strengthened with damascened iron 'bamboo-and-vase' braces between the arm and the posts, and with ruyi-shaped braces within the crook, the front seat rail detailed with cusped beading, the pivoting footrest supported by short cabriole legs and mounted with damascened iron with a design of two rhinoceros horns flanking a coin, each structural joins reinforced with damascened iron mounts, some with scrolling tendril design


71.2 by 67.2 by h. 102.8 cm

La Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes, Paris, 10th September 1968.

Collection of Arthur M. Sackler, 1968-96.

Collection of Else Sackler, 1996-2001.

Collection of Dr Elizabeth A. Sackler, 2001.

Christie's New York, 20th September 2001, lot 254 and cover.

Nicholas Grindley, London, 2001.


La Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes 藝廊,巴黎,1968年9月10日

亞瑟.賽克勒收藏,1968-96年

艾爾斯.賽克勒收藏,1996-2001年

伊麗莎白.賽克勒博士收藏,2001年

紐約佳士得2001年9月20日,編號254及封面

Nicholas Grindley,倫敦,2001年

Michel Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, 1979, p. 80, pl. 105.


Michel Beurdeley,《Chinese Furniture》,東京、紐約及三藩市,1979年,頁80,圖版105