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Lot #263 - A pair of low-back armchairs Meiguiyi and a matching side table, 19th/20th century

  • Auction House:
    Sotheby's Australia
  • Sale Name:
    Property From The Collection of Dame Nellie Melba GBE & Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design
  • Sale Date:
    31 Mar 2015 ~ 6pm Session 1: Lots 1 - 162
    01 Apr 2015 ~ 6pm Session 2: Lots 163 - 461
  • Lot #:
    263
  • Lot Description:
    A pair of low-back armchairs Meiguiyi and a matching side table, 19th/20th century
    the heavy blackwood resembling zitan, each chair with a straight crestrail continuing through rounded corners to the back posts, enclosing a rectangular openwork panel carved with a 'ruyi'-shaped panel flanked by scrolling dragons, the straight arms framed on three sides by an inset shaped panel carved with similar motifs, joined to the seat with pierced dragon roundels, the legs joined by a shaped and beaded apron carved with dragons and scrolls and with stepped stretchers; the table with rectangular top above a gallery joined by struts and the legs with stretchers (3)
    chairs 87 cm high, 61 cm wide, 45.5 cm deep; table 71.5 cm high, 42 cm wide, 35 cm deep
  • Estimate:
    A$12,000 - 18,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Oriental

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