清康熙 戧金填漆雲龍紋葵花式六足香几

the flat top subtly divided into five lobes, centred with a dragon depicted soaring sinuously around a flaming pearl, surrounded by four further dragons in shades of green and red and a key-fret border, the thick rounded edge with a stylised fret design, the constricted waist divided into six main lobes by six pairs of raised vertical ridges, each lobe delicately detailed with quatrefoil floral scrolls and pierced with an elongated quatrefoil cartouche, resting on a thin scroll band and a bombé apron painted with ferocious dragons continuing onto six cabriole legs terminating in crenulated sides and upturned scroll feet, all raised a lobed pedestal base similarly decorated with a large ferocious dragons, key-fret designs and stylised floral scrolls, all reserved on a rich russet-red ground, the countersunk underside of the top and base lacquered black

倫敦蘇富比2011年11月9日，編號38

葵花式几面刻五龍戲珠；高束腰，海棠形透空開光；膨牙板、三彎腿、足下底座飾遊龍花卉；精美華麗，做工考究，委婉多姿。香几多呈圓形，居中放置，四旁無依，上置香爐花尊，宜人欣賞。木刻版畫《金瓶梅》第十八回插圖中，有一件造型相似的香几。英國學者 Craig Clunas 認為《金瓶梅》為明朝家具的研究提供了原始資料，見《Orientations》，1992年1月刊，頁62，圖5。

一對明末，但同飾雲龍戲珠紋香几，1989年9月28/29日於紐約蘇富比拍賣，編號398及399；2011年3月23日再次拍賣，編號659及660。一宣德嵌螺鈿雲龍戲珠紋香几，為清宮舊藏，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集‧明清家具（上）》，香港，2002年，圖版162號；同書另一件嵌掐絲琺瑯面，見圖版165 。