A PAIR OF 'HUANGHUALI' 'BAITONG'-MOUNTED HORSESHOEBACK ARMCHAIRS (QUAN YI) QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

each with elegantly carved crescent-shaped toprail extending to scrolled handgrips, with a bowed splat flanked by round stiles continuing through the rectangular cane seat to back legs of square section, lined with beaded flanges and aprons, supported with a box-stretcher, with metal reinforcements (2)

Sotheby's New York, 11th April 1990, lot 612.