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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
~1647
A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE
17TH-18TH CENTURY
PROVENANCE:
The single-panel top is set in a rectangular frame above the finely Yamanaka & Co., New York.
beaded apron and beaded spandrels pierced with ruyi-heads. The Robert and William Drummond, New York.
whole is raised on trestle legs fitted with openwork panels carved with Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
dragons amidst lingzhi stems and set into shoe feet. Acquired from the above in 1974.
32Ω in (81.9 cm.) high, 71º in. (181 cm.) wide, 16º in. (41.3 cm.) deep
LITERATURE:
W. M. Drummond, “Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early
$150,000-250,000 Scholarship, 1969,” Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society,
Summer 1993, pp. 63, pls. 17-18.
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨如意紋平頭案
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