High-Back Armchair

CultureChinese

Datelate 17th-early 18th century

MediumHuanghuali wood with woven fiber seat

DimensionsOverall: 44 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (113.03 × 64.77 × 59.69 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.

Object number81-27/40 B

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionOne of a pair of huanghuali continuous yoke-back armchairs with swept back front supports to the arms, drilled for soft seat construction, now with a hard matting seat. The outside edge of the seat frame is cut with a cushion molding with a square shoulder above and below. Full-length aprons are mitred and half-lapped and appear to be tongue and grooved into the legs as well as nailed and are, unusually, to all four sides. First half of 18th century.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 14 – December 6, 1987.

Provenance

With R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, by May 20, 1975;

Purchased from R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd. by Karen Dean Bunting (1912-1981), Mission Hills, KS, May 20, 1975-1981 [1];

Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] R. H. Ellsworth’s invoice and receipt are in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 77, no. 29 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 344 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 374, no. 282 (repro.).

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