The Reverend Richard Fabian Collection of Chinese Classical Furniture

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Lot 44
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A HUANGHUALI LOW TABLE (KANGZHUO) 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Wood
  • Height 12 in; Width 38 in; Depth 24 in
two floating boards set flush into the rectangular frame of standard mitered, mortise and tenon construction, the molded edge tapering to a beaded lower edge over a short recessed waist, set above an arched and cusped apron with beaded edge carved with confronting chilong flanking entwined grasses, supported on cabriole legs terminating with a ball foot enclosed by an upturned leaf on on an octagonal foot

Provenance

Butterfields, San Francisco, circa 1984-5.

Literature

Curtis Evarts, 'San Francisco Symposium on Classical Chinese Wood Furniture', Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Winter, 1992, fig. 2.