Lot #234 - A pair of carved hardwood yokeback armchairs, Sichutou Guanmaoyi, Qing dynasty
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Auction House:Sotheby's Australia
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Sale Name:Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Deign
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Sale Date:29 Oct 2014 ~ 5.30pm
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Lot #:234
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Lot Description:A pair of carved hardwood yokeback armchairs, Sichutou Guanmaoyi, Qing dynasty
possibly zitan, each with an elegantly scrolling crestrail terminating in rounded ends, joined to slender curved stiles and a broad S-curved rectangular splat flanked at the sides by shaped flanges and pierced and carved with a ruyi-shaped cartouche enclosing a coiled dragon above a pierced rectangular panel of a qilin, rocks and clouds, the serpentine outline arms with rounded ends supported on tapering stiles and curved front posts with shaped brackets, and with a hardwood seat recessed within the moulded frame above a shaped and beaded apron carved with foliate scrolls, all resting on cylindrical legs joined by four ascending stretchers
119 cm high, 68 cm wide, 52 cm deep -
Estimate:A$8,000 - 12,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Oriental
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