Pair of fine antique bamboo armchairs with lattice style pattern. This pair has nice worn black lacquer on the wooden seat as well as appropriate worn foot rest revealing beautiful grain. It is made of the rare Guei-Fe bamboo with unusual spots and colors. 19th century.

Old bamboo furniture is much rarer than the wood furniture as few have survived. The joinery on bamboo furniture can be very enticing because it partly imitates the joinery on the wood furniture, yet it also has its own unique way of constructing pieces together by bending, fitting, or binding with thin woven bamboo ropes in different ways.

In Chinese art and culture, objects made of bamboo are highly praised and sought after also because bamboo is a symbol of spirituality . It represents the un-breakable and high virtue and has been for centuries used by scholars and artists in paintings, poems, and proses to express one's pursuit in high morality and fine taste.

This pair of bamboo chairs is particularly beautiful because not only it has pleasing look from the old bamboo patina as well as from the wood and lacquer, it is also well structured and designed and at its best original condition with minor replacement of some of the binding woven bamboo ropes.

Dimensions: 21 1/8"w x 16 1/2"d x 36 3/4"h

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