A pair of 'huanghuali' horseshoe-back armchairs (Quanyi)

17th / 18th century

十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨雕如意紋圈椅一對

each with an expansive U-form three-segment crestrail terminating in gracefully outscrolled handgrips above shaped spandrels, the slightly bowed splat flanked by cusped upper edges and carved with a central ruyi-form medallion, the soft mat seat supported underneath by two bowed transverse stretchers, set into the rectangular molded edge frame, above a vigorously shaped and beaded spandreled apron carved on the front with delicately intertwining foliate motifs, the half-round legs joined by a footrail and stretchers of ascending height (2)

Height 38 in., 96.5 cm; Width 23 ? in., 59.4 cm; Depth 18 in., 45.7 cm