A rare and important huanghuali yokeback armchair, Late Ming dynasty 明末 黃花梨四出頭官帽椅 elegantly constructed with a plain S-shaped splat that accentuates the figured pattern of huanghuali, crowned by a yoke with upturned rounded ends, the curved arms with shaped spandrels at the protruding ends, supported by S-shaped braces in the middle and posts that continue through the seat rail forming the front and back legs, the legs joined by a footrail and stretchers of ascending heights, with a cusped and beaded apron at the front and plain aprons on other sides 61.7 by 53.5 by h. 115.6 cm