PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION A Rare Chinese Huali double 'vase splat' Corner Chair18th Century with curved crest rail and flattened out-scrolling arms, the back with two vase-shaped splats dividing three turned spindles above a solid panel shaped seat with plain apron above a central cabriole leg with a shell at the knee with acanthus to the sides and pendant leafy drops below, the leg ending in a slender four-toed claw and ball foot and turned-spindle X-shaped stretchers joining the three slender cylindrical 'back' legs. 34in (86.4cm) high; 21 1/4in (54cm) wide; 22in (53.3cm) deep 十八世紀 花梨雙瓶形背轉角椅 Provenance: Ed Hardy, San Francisco, March 1984 The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984-present Published: Kee Il Choi Jr., Guest Curator, The China Trade: Romance and Reality , De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979, p. 21 Exhibited: Peabody Museum, Salem Massachusetts (now the Peabody Essex Museum), Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection , 1986-1988 De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, June 22 – September 16, 1979 This chair is one of a pair, the other is owned by the Peabody Essex Museum. 出處： 舊金山 Ed Hardy，1994 年四月 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1994 年至今 出版記錄： Kee Il Choi Jr., 特邀策展人，《中國貿易：羅曼史與現實》，麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年，第 21 頁 展出記錄： 麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》，1986-1988 麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年 6 月 22 日至 9 月 16 日 此轉角椅本為一對，另一只現為皮博迪博物館典藏品。 In Kee Il Choi's important reference work, The China Trade: Romance and Reality , an exhibition organized by the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts in collaboration with The Museum of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, this chair is illustrated alongside an informative footnote and a diagram of the joint between the back uprights and the seat which are joined by an inter-locking pegged splice joint reinforced with iron ties. The inner front corners are lined with curved wooden braces and the inner corners are secured with angle blocks. The construction of this elaborate joint is a typically Chinese one and Choi references line drawings in Gustave Ecke's, Chinese Domestic Furniture , Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, 1962, p. 154, no's 22 a & b. Importantly we should also consider a rare zitan George III style corner armchair sold at Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 1996, lot 243, which rather crucially, assuming the wood identification is correct, demonstrates that scarce and expensive woods, normally assigned to the imperial workshops, were being used on items for export to the West. The use of an X-form stretcher in our chair is to help support the heavy weight of the dense wood used. For a George II, English prototype of similar form, with double-splat backs dividing turned spindles and shell-craved seat rail, see , London, Fine English Furniture, 21 November 2012, lot 40, which appears to be related to other chairs bearing the