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RARE TABLE DE ROCHER EN HUANGHUALI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE
Reposant sur quatre pieds en forme de sabots et soutenue par des bretelles Of elegant proportions and form, the present table would most likely have
dites «bras géants», le plateau rectangulaire est placé dans un cadre à la been used to support an object of great weight. The use of curved ‘giant’s
bordure moulée. arm’s’ braces indicates that the table was used for displaying a scholar’s
Hauteur: 77,2 cm. (30¡ in.) rock, large archaic bronze vessel, or a censer. Wang Shixiang illustrates a line
Longueur: 80 cm. (31Ω in.) drawing of this joint in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early
Profondeur: 40,3 cm. (15√ in.)
Qing Dynasties, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 121. no 3.32a. The strength of this
€80,000-120,000 US$94,000-140,000 joint allows for the table to be supported without stretchers, thereby creating
£73,000-110,000 a lighter and more rarefied form. A larger huanghuali burl-inset table with
similar joint and 'giant's arm's' braces is illustrated in Grace Wu Bruce, The
A RARE HUANGHUALI ROCK TABLE
Best of the MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture, vol. 1, Beijing, 2018, pp. 112-15.
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
A smaller huanghuali table with similar joint, but constructed without ‘giant
清十七/十八世紀 黃花梨霸王棖長方桌 arm’s’ braces was sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1669.