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A huanghuali meditation chair Contemporary image 1
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A huanghuali meditation chair
Contemporary

Asian Decorative Works of Art
5 – 15 April 2021, 12:00 PDT
Los Angeles

US$6,000 - US$8,000

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A huanghuali meditation chair

Contemporary
The plain elegant back frame mitered to tapered tubular back rails continuing through the seat frame to form the back legs and tenoned to the arm rests supported by oval front posts flanking humpback stretchers with pillar-form struts over a footrest and box stretchers.
33 1/2in (85cm) high

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Purchased:
1 July 2002, the West Coast Trading Group, Berkeley California. Made by Mr. Hu Shengyue in Beijing under the supervision of the Zhongguo Zhuhai Jianlong Fazhan Youxian Gongsi.

For the Ming dynasty prototype of this modern chair, see the front and back cover of the Winter 1992 issue of the Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society as well as the feature article by Sarah Handler: 'A Ming Meditating Chair in Bauhaus Light,' p 26.

That earlier prototype, dated to the 17th century, would go on to be sold as lot 93 at Christie's New York, September 19, 1996, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection.

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