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A 'HUANGHUALI' WAISTED CORNER-LEG TABLE (HUAZHUO), QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A 'HUANGHUALI' WAISTED CORNER-LEG TABLE (HUAZHUO)
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
清十八 / 十九世紀 黃花梨有束腰羅鍋棖馬蹄足畫桌
the top of standard miter, mortise and tenon frame and flush, tongue-and-grooved, single board floating-panel construction, the molded-edge frame over a recessed waist and straight beaded-edge apron, the square-section beaded-edge legs terminating in hoof feet and joined by arched and beaded-edge stretchers mortised and tenoned into the legs below the apron
Height 33 in., 83.8 cm; Width 71⅜ in., 181.3 cm; Depth 23¾ in., 60.3 cm
Christie's New York, 28th June 1984, lot 155.
來源
紐約佳士得1984年6月28日，編號155
Pleasing in proportions and elegant in form, tables of this type have been amongst the most admired since the late Ming dynasty as evident in its consistent popularity through subsequent periods. Earlier huanghuali tables of this type include a smaller version, attributed to 1550-1650, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Craig Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, pl. 33; one attributed to the early Qing dynasty, from the Qing Court Collection and still in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 97; another sold at Bonhams London, 11th May 2017, lot 329; a similar table attributed to the 18th century, sold in these rooms, 15th September 2010, lot 340, and another attributed to the 18th/19th century sold in our London rooms, 7th November 2018, lot 120.