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Lot 108
Set of Twelve Chinese Art Deco Dining Chairs
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Early 20th century, including (10) side chairs and (2) armchairs, mahogany, shaped central splat with relief carved double dragons, panel seat, molded skirt and legs.

37.5 x 21 x 18 in.

Descended in the Seitz family, founders and owners of the Shanghai Lumber Co. of China. The chairs were a custom order for Carl Seitz, who was a vice-president for AIG, and ran its Pacific-Rim division, to his young wife Lilla in the early 1930s as a house-warming gift in the early years of their marriage.

$1,000 - 2,000