Sold for $756

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

A Hardwood ‘Scroll-End’ Armchair, Taishiyi

LATE QING DYNASTY

清晚期硬木書卷式太師椅
with elaborately carved openwork splat in the form of elongated, archaistic kui dragons, the curved arm rails with further archaistic kui dragons, the shaped aprons carved with square-form scrolls, the whole supported on legs of square section terminating in scroll-form feet and joined by thick stretchers above plain aprons.

Height 40 X length 25 X width 30 in., 101.6 x 63.5 x 76.2 cm.

Property from the Collection of Samuel Stern, Alexandria, Virginia

Condition Report

The overall structural integrity in sound stable condition, with some rubbing and surface scratches alongside minor splitting associated with expected use and age.

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