{"product_id":"a-set-of-8-18th-century-spanish-chinoiserie-red-lacquer-chairs","title":"A Set of Eight Antique Queen Anne Style Red-Lacquered and Gilt Chinoiserie Side Chairs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Set of Eight Queen Anne Style Red-Lacquered and Gilt Chinoiserie Side Chairs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEach chair with a shaped and arched cresting rail surmounted by a carved and gilded acanthus and scroll pediment of exuberant foliate character, above a broad vasiform splat richly decorated in raised \u003cem\u003echinoiserie\u003c\/em\u003e polychrome lacquer depicting figures in landscape settings with pavilions, blossoming branches and rockwork, all reserved against the deep vermilion ground, above a shaped seat rail of serpentine outline similarly enriched with lacquer decoration centred by a gilt cartouche, the caned seat within a conforming frame, raised on cabriole front legs with pad feet and square-section rear legs united by a plain H-stretcher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe entire surface in scarlet and black lacquer heightened with gilt \u003cem\u003echinoiserie\u003c\/em\u003e ornament throughout, the gilded cresting retaining original gilding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanish, Late 19th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe present chairs combine the formal vocabulary of the English Queen Anne period — the vasiform splat, the cabriole leg, the caned seat, the scrolled and carved cresting — with a decorative programme that is wholly in the Anglo-Dutch \u003cem\u003echinoiserie\u003c\/em\u003e tradition, the raised polychrome lacquer figures and landscapes applied with considerable confidence and detail over the scarlet ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bold vermilion, deployed here at a scale that would have made these chairs among the most visually arresting objects in any early eighteenth-century interior, is characteristic of the japanned work of that period, when the colour was understood to evoke the prestigious Chinese and Japanese lacquers it sought to emulate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Vault Sydney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42093874446391,"sku":"VS1998","price":10600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2322\/8433\/files\/VS19980026_879b3f72-6468-489e-8bed-a6bec1e5c5c3.jpg?v=1775610651","url":"https:\/\/thevaultsydney.com\/products\/a-set-of-8-18th-century-spanish-chinoiserie-red-lacquer-chairs","provider":"The Vault Sydney","version":"1.0","type":"link"}