A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI LOW-BACKED ARMCHAIRS, MEIGUIYI, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 清十八世紀 黃花梨雙環卡字花玫瑰椅成對

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A similar chair is illustrated in Sarah Handler, Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture, Beijing, 2005, p. 129; a pair in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is illustrated in Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture, Minneapolis, 1999, pl. 16; another example sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 1991, lot 363.