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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
199 Y W
A HUANGHUALI QIN TABLE, TIAOJI
18th century Tables of this type, composed of a long single board mortise
The massive, well-figured single board top half-lapped, mortise and tenoned to the sideboards, were used for holding musical
and tenoned to thick side panels carved with a single yuji cut-out instruments, reading handscrolls and other leisurely pursuits. The
centered above a scroll-work base. yuji cutouts on each side panel, are symbols of good fortune. See
31 1/2in (80cm) high; 80 1/4in (178.5cm) long; 15 1/4in (38.7cm) Dr. Chu-Pak Lau. Classical Chinese Huanghuali Furniture from the
wide Haven Collection. Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery,
The University of Hong Kong, 2016, no. 45, pp. 192-95, for a jiqimu
$30,000 - 50,000 example.

18世紀 黃花梨條几琴臺 See also the exhibition catalogue, Classical Chinese Wood Furniture,
San Francisco Craft & Folk Museum, 1992, p. 21, no. 4, where a
seventeenth century huanghuali table with everted flange ends is
illustrated with a similar treatment of the side panels which are carved
with an open design of a lingzhi or ruyi motif. A woodblock print from
The Golden Lotus, 1695 edition is also illustrated and shows such a
table in an intimate pavilion setting.

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