A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG LONG TABLE, QIAOTOUAN MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY |

the top of a single-board panel flanked by shaped everted flanges on the shorter ends and moulding inward and downward and ending in a narrow band, supported on a frame formed by the long beaded-edged apron decorated with spandrels carved in openwork with phoenix motifs and short end aprons, the rectangular legs cut to house the long aprons and decorated with wide bands, all above shoe-type feet, the legs and feet framing an inset openwork panel carved with a cusped cartouche enclosing a pair of confronting chilong