A PAIR OF CHINESE HUANGHUALI SOUTHERN OFFICIAL'S HAT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, NANGUANMAOYI

PROBABLY 17TH CENTURY

The gently curved splats carved in relief with curling chilong cartouches, the arms with lingzhi and leaf supports, the rectangular rattan seats above plain square-section legs join by stretchers, 118cm x 54cm x 44cm. (2)

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Madame Safia Sassi, Paris.

Cf. Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Vol II, p.47, for a single related chair, see also, Chinese Furniture One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymound Hung Collection, pp.64-65, for a pair of armchairs of this design.