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A HUANGHUALI SUMMER-WINTER TABLE LATE MING / EARLY QING DYNASTY
Description
- huanghuali (Dalbergia odorifera)
Exhibited
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colarado, 1997-99.
Grace Wu Bruce, Chan Chair and Qin Bench: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture II, Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998, cat. no. 19, pp. 96-97.
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This table serves the dual purpose of being placed on the floor when at full height and on the kang when the plain legs are removed.
There are extant examples of a small family of tables of this design, mostly rectangular banzhuo side tables. Their distinct features are the combination of a standard kang table in the top section, with legs extending below, usually round, and some examples are capped by vase-shaped feet. Also typical are the spandrels between the aprons and the legs, in various shapes and designs. This piece is more special, with the added feature of removable legs.
A similar dual usage square table but without carved decorations on the aprons is illustrated in Wang Shixiang et al., Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, pp.106-107.