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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED TEXAS COLLECTION 清十八 / 十九世紀 剔紅雲龍紋開光山水人 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DON LICHTY panels and phoenix spandrels form complementary imagery
A SET OF FOUR CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER 物圖坐墩一套四件 A ‘HUANGHUALI’-VENEERED RECESSED-LEG connoting auspicious wishes for a harmonious household.
The bold form and lustrous, shimmering hardwood would
‘CHILDREN AT PLAY’ GARDEN SEATS TABLE (QIAOTOUAN) have been a suitable adornment in the central room of an
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY elite, affluent family.
each of barrel form supported on six demilune feet, the sides the veneered top terminating in everted flanges, the paneled A table with similarly carved dragon panels and phoenix-
with four large quatrefoil cartouches enclosing children frame with a molded edge over a beaded straight apron with form spandrels sold in our Hong Kong rooms 11th October
engaged in various playful activities such as wrestling, spandrels, each elaborately carved and pierced in the form 2020, lot 111. Other related examples include a table sold
galloping astride a hobby horse with an ‘attendant’, holding of a crested phoenix with pointed beaks and long hooded in our London rooms 4th November 2020, lot 121 and
a parasol, marching in a procession, blowing on a suona, and eyes and scroll wings, the beaded-edge square section legs another at Christie’s New York, 18th March 2021, lot 839.
waving a flag, set in a lush garden pavilion with flowering centered with double fillets running the length of the legs, A dismountable plank-top table of similar form and motifs
plants, small shrubs, and craggy rocks, the space between joined by an openwork panel carved and pierced with a is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis (acc. no.
the cartouches carved with the ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ design of addorsed dragons with curled snouts touching and 97.25.1A-I).
against a cloud ground, the top carved with a ferocious long, elaborately scrolling tails, all raised on a pair of trestle
dragon amongst clouds (4) feet ◉ $ 60,000-80,000
Height 19¼ in., 49 cm Height 34½ in., 87.6 cm; Width 77¼ in., 196.2 cm; Depth
20⅞ in., 53 cm 清十八 / 十九世紀 黃花梨單板夾頭榫鳳紋
$ 50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE 牙頭透雕龍紋擋板翹頭案
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1999.
來源：
Large and impressive, long tables such as the present 嘉木堂，香港，1999年
example were designed to be placed against the wall of
a central room and set with antiquities, vases of flowers,
or perhaps religious sculptures and bowls of offerings,
all between gently flaring flanges. The archaistic dragon

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