清十九世紀 紅木圈椅一對

each with a well-rounded crestrail comprised of three scarf-joined members and set on straight back posts and S-shaped front and side posts, a shaped spandrel beneath each elegantly outscrolled and rounded terminal, with a rectangular splat flanked by integral graduating flanges and enclosing a carved circular medallion of a frontal dragon rising from waves, the post continuing through the hardwood seat frame forming the legs of circular sections secured by plain beaded aprons and four stretchers of ascending height, a single transverse section underneath  (2)

Alice Boney，香港

Honolulu Academy of Arts，1982年，編號45

Robert H. Ellsworth，《Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections》圖錄，Honolulu Academy of Arts，1982年，第65頁，編號45

Both crestrails with repaired broken joins to either side of the back splat that have been filled and consolidated. One with small splits rising from the base of the splat and a repaired shatter to one front post. The other with a split to the footrest where it joins the leg and there is an open split to the back of the splat. The joins of both armchairs all consolidated.
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A similar pair of armchairs with hardwood seats but a more ornate back splat is illustrated in Gems of Beiing Cultural Relics Series, Furniture, Beijing, 1999, no. 457.