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A ‘HUANGHUALI’ RECESSED-LEG TABLE table of similar type in our London rooms, 4th November
(QIAOTOUAN) 2020, lot 106; and one in these rooms 16th March 2016, lot
17TH / 18TH CENTURY 229. A smaller related table, illustrated in Grace Wu Bruce,
Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with Huanghuali
the single board floating panel top terminating in everted Wood: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture,
flanges, above a plain apron and shapely ‘cloud-collar’ Hong Kong, 1991, cat. no. 18 was sold at Christie’s New
spandrels, the ovoid-section legs secured by two pairs of York, 19th September 2002, lot 17. A larger example, lacking
cross braces everted flanges, from the Robert Ellsworth Collection is
Height 31½ in., 80 cm; Width 55 in., 139.7 cm; Depth 16 in., illustrated in R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood
40.6 cm Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New York,
1971, p.153, pl. 49 and 49a and was sold at Christie’s New
PROVENANCE York, 16th March 2015, lot 46.
Nicholas Grindley, London.
The present table, with the richness of the luminous wood ◉ $ 50,000-70,000
subtly tempered by its elegantly restrained lines, exemplifies
an iconic form of late Ming /early Qing dynasty hardwood 十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨夾頭榫如意雲紋牙
furniture. Designed to be placed against a wall and support 頭翹頭案
an array of treasured objects bracketed between the
gracefully rounded flanges, the table would have been a 來源：
valued addition to an elite literati household.
Nicholas Grindley，倫敦
Similar and closely related examples include a table sold in
our Hong Kong rooms, 26th May 2021, lot 529; a smaller

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A PAIR OF ‘HUANGHUALI’ RECTANGULAR 清十八世紀 黃花梨有束腰羅鍋棖馬蹄足長
STOOLS (DENG) 方凳一對
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
來源：
the frame of standard miter, mortise, and tenon
construction, drilled for soft-seat construction, and Chinart，紐約，2000年11月22日
supported by a pair of transverse braces underneath, the
recessed waist above a plain straight apron mortised and
tenoned into the square-section legs, joined by humpback
stretchers and terminating in well-drawn hoof feet (2)
Height of 20 in., 50.8 cm; Width 21 in., 53.3 cm; Depth 15¾
in., 40 cm

PROVENANCE
Chinart, New York, 22nd November 2000.
◉ $ 12,000-15,000

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