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Japanese red lacquer and brass mounted palanquin chair. The horseshoe top rail with scroll terminals and suspending a curved backsplat with ruyi head-pierced panels bracketing a central gilt-painted diaper-patterned panel, all above a maroon colored leather seat and supported on pivoted crossed stretchers, all the wooden members decorated with gilt flowers amid scrolling leafy tendrils on a red lacquer ground and applied with foliate-etched metal fittings. Please see detail image.

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Late Edo period, circa 1850
 
40-1/2" high
32" wide
20" deep
 

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