PAIR OF HONGMU SPINDLE-BACK ARMCHAIRS, MEIGUIYI
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: 12 March 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 硬木梳背玫瑰椅 （一對）
after a bamboo prototype, each with a humpback toprail supported on rounded posts extending to the back legs and flanking the slightly curved round section spindles, with a matching series of spindles bracing stepped rectangular arms, the broad rectangular frame with mat seat supported on legs of oval section joined by humpback stretchers with short vertical posts, the base with stretchers and a footrail (2)
Dimensions
56cm wide x 96.7cm high x 44cm deep each
Provenance
Private English collection, London; acquired from Christie's New York, 23 & 24 September 1988, lots 660
倫敦私人收藏；購自紐約佳士得，1988年9月23及24日，拍品660
Footnote
Compare the single chair in the Lan Xianmai Collection, illustrated in C. Evarts, et al., Splendour of Style: Classical Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p. 93; and a pair included in Nicholas Grindley, Exhibition at Kate Ganz, New York, March 2000, no. 9.
A pair of close comparable hunghuali spindle-back armchairs, meiguiyi, very similar in design and dated to the Qing dynasty, 19th century, is in the collection of the Liangyi Museum, Hong Kong, museum number: LYMF-29. Another set of four was in The YC Chen Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 1955. Another pair of hongmu meiguiyi, also dated to the Qing dynasty 19th century, was acquired from Galerie Gisèle Croës, Brussels in 1985 and offered in Sotheby's Paris, 15 December 2016, lot 180. A further pair of chairs, with plain aprons in place of humpback stretchers, was sold in Christie's New York, 21 March 1997, lot 203.
靠背和扶手之內裝有形似梳齒直欞的椅子，均稱作「梳背椅」。直欞圍子在結構上借鑒了某些竹製傢俱的特點，並與當時門窗流行的「柳條式」戶隔相似。比較一張類似的玫瑰椅，著錄於國立歷史博物館編輯委員會編輯：《風華再現──明清家具收藏展》，臺北：國立歷史博物館，1999，圖版93；另一對可比較之玫瑰椅，收錄於Nicholas Grindley：《Exhibition at Kate Ganz.》，紐約，2000，圖版9；一張形制及尺寸相近的清十九世紀黃花梨梳背扶手椅，兩依藏博物館藏，館藏號「LYMF-29」；四張陳玉階舊藏晚清梳背玫瑰椅，2013年5月29日售於香港佳士得，拍品1955；另兩張紅木玫瑰椅，1985年出自布鲁塞爾古董商Galerie Gisèle Croës，2016年12月15日見於巴黎蘇富比，拍品180；另一對紅木例子，面下裝格形橫棖，1997年3月21日於紐約佳士得售出，拍品203，皆可資比較。