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A HUANGHUALI LOW TABLE, KANGZHUO Grace Wu Bruce, purchased 22 February 1995.
Late Ming dynasty
The single-board well-figured floating panel top of standard mitre, Historically used as lounging or work surfaces on a larger platform,
mortise-and-tenon construction supported by three transverse these tables were placed in combination with small cabinets and
stretchers underneath, two with exposed tenons, the frame with scholar’s objects on the kang. The current lot features an elegant scroll
‘water-stopping’ edge and tapering inward to a narrow flat band over a work and beaded border apron, complementing the leaf-embellished
recessed waist and elegantly beaded and shaped apron made of one cabriole legs, and is an example of restrained elegance.
piece of wood and mitred, mortise, tenoned and half-lapped to the
cabriole legs. For Kang tables of this classic waisted type, see Christie’s, New York,
12 x 36 3/4 x 23 1/8in (30.5 x 93.5 x 58.8cm) The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part II, lot 105, 18 March
2015; and Hong Kong Guardian sale, lot 676, 6 October 2013.
US$50,000 - 70,000

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