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A huanghuali trestle-leg table, also with pierced ruyi spandrels and
of similar proportions, but with a more restrained ruyi openwork
panel, was sold at Christie's New York, The Collection of Robert
Hatfield Ellsworth Part I: Masterworks: Including Indian, Himalayan
and Southeast Asian Works of Art, Chinese and Japanese Works of
Art, 17 March 2015, lot 48. Another huanghuali trestle-leg table with
similar spandrels and elaborate openwork panels joining the legs
is illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: One Hundred
Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, vol. I, New
York, 1996, pp. 166-7, no. 62.
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