十七/十八世紀 黃花梨圈椅一對

each with curving toprail sloping down to the arms terminating in a curved hook beyond the corner posts set with shaped spandrels, the backsplat carved with an open-work ruyi-shaped panel, the lower register with a scrolled open-work panel, the back corner posts continuing below the rectangular frame, with mat seat, to the back legs joined by stretchers and a footrest

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The pair of horse-shoe shaped chairs are in reasonably good condition, but each of the legs have been slightly reduced. There are some old repairs to the joints on the curving top rails of both. There is cracking repairs to the pierced ruyi panel to one splat on one chair and a 14.5cm by 2cm repair to the underside of the footrest to the other.
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此類椅甚為罕見，造型優雅，靠背透雕紋飾，安思遠收藏一例，四張成堂，圖見《Chinese Furniture. Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasties》，紐約， 1971年，圖版15，售於紐約佳士得2015年3月17日，編號41。 另可參考仇英（約1494-約1552年）畫《西廂記》圖，畫中張生坐一椅，靠背紋飾相近，圖見Sarah Handler，《Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture》，柏克萊，2005年，頁109。

參考一烏木例，靠背刻浮雕紋飾，曾展於《Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections》，Honolulu Academy of Arts，檀香山，1982年，編號66；另一例售於紐約蘇富比1990年4月11/12日，編號626。

丹麥Steffan Klubien於1916年於北京購得本對椅，Klubien曾於1914至1928年任職北京、天津及上海海關要員，亦為作家。