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A HUANGHUALI CORNER LEG SIDE TABLE, TIAOZHUANG Grace Wu Bruce, purchased 27th February 1996.
17th century
The single board floating panel top set into a mitre, mortise-and-tenon For comparable examples in public collections, see Craig Clunas,
frame with “ice-plate” edge supported underneath by five dove-tail Chinese Furniture, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988, no
transverse stretchers over a one-piece recessed waist and plain apron 48; Chen Zengbi. Zhongyang Gongyi Meishu Xueyuan Yuancang:
mitered, mortise and tenoned and half lapped into square cut legs with Zhenpin Tulu dier ji, Mingshi Jiaju. Central Academy of Arts and Crafts:
hoof feet, the legs double-lock tenoned into the top frame and joined Illustrations of collections, volume 2, Ming Furniture, Beijing 1994, no.
together by hump-back stretchers. 35.
34 1/4 x 68 5/16 x 20 1/16in (87 x 173.5 x 51cm)
US$125,000 - 200,000 For recently sold examples of this classic design, see a slightly smaller
十七世紀 黃花梨條桌 example sold Christie’s, New York, the Collection of Robert Hatfield
Ellsworth Part II, lot 169, 18 March 2015; see also Beijing Guardian, lot
3209, 17 November 2013.
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