A 'huanghuali' low table (Kangzhuo), 17th century | 十七世紀 黃花梨有束腰壺門牙子虎爪足炕桌

A 'huanghuali' low table (Kangzhuo)

17th century

十七世紀 黃花梨有束腰壺門牙子虎爪足炕桌

a three-board floating panel top set into a beaded-edge frame of standard mortise and tenon construction, supported by a pair of transverse stretchers underneath, the molded frame tapering to a recessed waist above a lively cusped and barbed beaded-edge apron, cabriole legs terminating in paw feet further raised on ball-form supports with claws carved in low relief

Height 10⅞ in., 27.6 cm; Width 31¾ in., 80.7 cm; Depth 26 in., 66 cm