65×65×102 cm (25 5/8×25 5/8×40 1/8 in)×2

The high yoke-back armchair is one of the most successful Chinese chair designs. The broad, flat, strong yoke and curved arms terminate in rounded ends; coupled with the overall scale of the chair, they confer an aura of power, strength, and station on the sitter. Yoke-back armchairs are found with many combinations of constructional details, one of the most obvious of which is the arrangement of supports for the arms. In general, this front post falls into one of two types: either as an extension of the front leg, or as a separately made post that cuts back and is affixed into the seat rail, such as the ones on this example. In its most attenuated form, this type is called a gooseneck post. What is unusual about these chairs is the presence of an S-shaped tapering brace in the center of the arm. The S-shaped brace is usually found on chairs that have the front posts as an extension of the leg(see No.12), but rarely on the form illustrated here.
Although some replacement of the aprons has been necessary on these chairs, enough of the original aprons survived to accurately restore the missing elements. Particularly rare, because aprons on this type of chair are normally plain, are the strongly shaped aprons beneath the foot rail and the side stretchers.
——Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley, and Anita Christy, Chinese Funiture:
One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection

Price estimate:
HKD: 2,400,000 - 3,400,000
USD: 308,300 - 436,800

Auction Result:
HKD: 4,560,000