A HUANGHUALI SQUARE TABLE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the four-paneled top set within a square frame with molded edges, raised on four thick legs with straight inner-sides and rounded outer corners with gently grooved and beaded edges on the outside, the legs joined by straight stretchers, connected to the apron by three struts, the fronts of all members similarly grooved and beaded with the beading forming a frame around the rectangular openings, the stretcher tenons protruding from the sides

Chicago, Illinois, acquired in 1991.

The table is on overall good condition. Two of the legs with sapwood visible on inward side and a third leg with small rectangular patch. There is minor wear to the surface and very minor nicks along the edges.
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There are few published examples of square tables with legs of this cross-section. This shape of table leg is known in classical furniture and is illustrated in a cross-sectional line drawing by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol. I., Chicago, 1990, p. 131.