A huanghuali recessed-leg side table with 'lingzhi-fungus' panels and everted ends 17th / 18th Century

the floating-panel top butted at the ends with large projecting everted ends, all secured by pairs of recessed legs with slightly rounded outer surfaces, grooved inner corners and a pronounced splay to the feet, the legs securing a tall rectangular panel pierced with large lingzhi fungus issuing from rockwork with curling leaves within a peaked and barbed panel edged with thick beading, and a lobed and cusped apron of entwined symmetrical vegetal scrolls below a transverse brace, finely secured by an over-hanging apron with cusped and shaped spandrels at the joins to the legs accented with further thick beading and cusped accents

As evidenced by the present lot, recessed-leg side tables with everted flanges sometimes have flared legs instead of the more typical shoe feet.  A line drawing of a similar table, also with flared legs and openwork panels of lingzhi, is illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, no. B88.  Compare also a similar side table but with a foot base sold in these rooms, 12th June 1984, lot 330.

Lingzhi was a popular decorative motif on side tables and can be found on a number of examples, including a jichimu table from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie's New York, 25th March 1998, lot 15.