Sell or Auction Your 2 Chinese Hardwood Huanghuali Armchairs Dragon Carvings for up to Nearly $50,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions
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Sell Your 2 Chinese Hardwood Huanghuali Armchairs with Dragon Carvings
Dalbergia odorifera, or fragrant rosewood, Chinese rosewood (Chinese: 降香黄檀; pinyin: jiàngxiāng huángtán; lit.: ‘drooping fragrant dalbergia’), is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is a small or medium-sized tree, 10–15 metres (33–49 ft) tall. It is endemic to China and occurs in Fujian, Hainan, Zhejiang,and Guangdong. It is used as a wood product and in folk medicine. This valuable wood is known in China as Huali and Huanghuali. Higher quality furniture from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were made of this wood.
Below is a recent realized price for 2 Chinese hardwood huanghuali armchairs with dragon carvings. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:
2 Chinese Hardwood Huanghuali Armchairs with Dragon Carvings. Sold for nearly $50,000.
We have sold the following items at auction:
John F. Kennedy’s Rocking Chair, Used by JFK as President
One of the few rocking chairs owned and used by John F. Kennedy as President, who famously relied on his rocking chairs to relieve back pain resulting from his WWII injuries. Kennedy’s personal physician, Dr. Janet Travell, first treated JFK as a Senator in the 1950s, where she prescribed the use of rocking chairs custom-made to his specifications. Sold for $90,000.
Harry Truman’s personally owned rocking chair. Beautifully crafted wooden rocking chair was donated by Mrs. Truman in the fall of 1962 to the Women’s Guild charity sale at the Trinity Episcopal Church, the church where she married the president in 1919. Patterned cushioning is from the chair’s reupholstering in the 1950’s by Jennings Furniture in Independence, according to the Historic Furnishing Report of the Harry S. Truman Home and National Historic Site. Truman was known for making use of his rocking chair, having mentioned it in numerous interviews including one with Edward R. Murrow in which he joked, ”I do an immense amount of it [manual labor] from a rocking chair.” Staining to the upper left of the upper cushion, else near fine. Accompanied by an 8” x 10” notarized LOA, mounted on a wooden plaque, from the charity sale’s chairwoman, Mrs. W. Howard Huffman of Independence, Missouri. Sold for $23,116.
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Scarce 110-year old chair from the administration of President William McKinley. Wooden chair, most likely mahogany, bears brass plaque on underside of seat which reads, ”Executive Mansion / President / William McKinley / Comr P B&G. / Colonel Theo. A. Bingham.” Colonel Theodore A. Bingham was responsible for renovating The White House, or the ”Executive Mansion” as it was then called, during the Benjamin Harrison administration approximately ten years before McKinley occupied the venerable residence. The federal-style wooden chair has a rectangular back and simple geometric solar design carved at top. The seat upholstered in royal blue leather is heavily worn with most of the leather torn off, exposing internal canvas, and not intended for sitting. The rest of the chair has some wear and rubbing, particularly to bottoms of legs, but still stands firmly making it a nice item for display. Back part of chair measures 14.5” x 19”; seat measures 16” x 17”, and entire chair from floor to top measures 36”.
Sold for $20,546.
Anne Baxter’s Director’s Chair
Director’s chair customized for actress Anne Baxter. Vintage chair used by Baxter between takes features a wooden frame, orange canvas seat and removable saffron canvas back printed ”Anne Baxter” in black lettering. Measures 24.75” x 23.5” x 16.5”. Wear and sunning from use, else near fine. Obtained directly from her daughter. Sold for $1,250.
FREE APPRAISAL. To buy, auction, sell or consign your 2 Chinese hardwood huanghuali armchairs with dragon carvings that are for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).