each with an arched crestrail curving down to join the slightly backward sloping rear posts continuing through the frame to form the back legs, and a rectangular S-shaped splat tenoned to the underside of the yoke and into the back rail of the seat frame, the rectangular seat frame enclosing a hard panel seat.
Height 42 x width 24 1/2 x depth 18 1/2 in.,
Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.
