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A HUANGHUALI SIDE TABLE, BANZHUO Grace Wu Bruce, purchased 5 July 1997.
17th century
The well-figured single board floating panel top set into a mitre, Tables of this type were usually constructed as pairs, although few
mortise-and-tenon frame over one-piece recessed waist and apron survive as such. See the possible mate to this table illustrated in Ecke,
mitred, mortised, tenoned and half-lapped to the square legs which Gustav. Chinese Domestic Furniture. Peking: Henri Vetch. 1944.
are double-lock tenoned into the top frame and tenoned into a five Reprinted by Charles E. Tuttle: Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962,
piece hump-back stretcher with exposed tenons and fastened to the plate 50.
top by two posts on the long side and one on each short side, the top
supported on the underside by three dovetailed transverse stretchers, For a table of comparable apron, see Sotheby’s, London, 11
the frame, stretchers, posts and legs thumb molded and beaded. November 2015, Classical Chinese Furniture from a European private
34 1/2 x 38 5/8 x 19 3/16in (87.7 x 98.2 x 48.8cm) Collection, lot 2.
US$60,000 - 100,000
十七世紀 黃花梨半桌
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