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PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTION
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A RARE AND EARLY CHINESE WELL-FIGURED HUANGHUALI
AND HUALI DEMI-LUNE TRIPLE-TOP CARD OR GAMES TABLE
Circa 1730-1740 展出記錄：
The edges of the three-leaf top with half-round molding, and the 麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》
double-gate back legs with integral wood hinges to support the ，1986-1988
flaps, the top flap plain and the second baize-lined, the solid apron
delicately carved in low relief with a beaded edge terminating in ruyi See Bonhams, London, 9 November 2017, lot 120 for a pair of
lappets above the rounded slightly tapering legs ending in pad feet ornate Huanghuali demi-lune triple-top Georgian-style gaming tables,
with mythical fanged dragon-heads with wavy manes. made from a similar-figured wood but with foliate scrolls carved to
29 3/4in (75.6cm) high; 33 1/4in (84.5cm) wide; 33in (83.8cm) diam the frieze (apron). The mythical-beast-heads carved to the pad feet of
the London pair are also remarkably similar to the dragon-heads on
$20,000 - 30,000 the Milhender example.

十八世紀 黃花梨與花梨半月牌桌 The Milhender table is an exceptional example of Chinese-Western
cultural exchange, having been especially commissioned according
Provenance to a western design, almost certainly English, but with a Chinese
Odile Cavendish, London, July 1980 craftsmen’s interpretation of certain elements, like the wonderful
The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, dragon-head masks on the pad feet and the restrained ruyi
1980-present (immortality lingzhi fungus) apron above each leg.

Published In Carl L. Crossman’s, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade,
Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Woodbridge, 1991, where this table is illustrated (p. 236, pl. 87), it is
Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities, Antique Collector’s Club, Suffolk, described as an Oriental hardwood of stylish and very rare form. The
UK, 1991, p. 236, Color Plate 87 author mentions a virtually identical table at Saltram House, Devon,
The Magazine Antiques, February 1992, in an article by Carl L. UK, though adding, that the frieze is inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and
Crossman, ‘China Trade Furniture’, p. 337, Pl. XI it lacks the carving on the pad feet. In his later article, ‘China Trade
Furniture’, in the The Magazine Antiques, February 1992, p. 337,
Exhibited he notes that the pad feet of this demi-lune table are carved with
Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, (now the Peabody Essex virtually the same dragon masks that appear on a chair, formerly in
Museum), ‘Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection’, the Milhender Collection, plate X.
1986-1988
Compare with a related huanghuali ‘George II’ games table, 18th
出處： century, which was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 19-20 March 2013,
倫敦 Odile Cavendish，1980 年七月 lot 298.
麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1980 年至今
For an earlier late Ming or early Qing dynasty huanghuali demi-lune
出版記錄： (half-round) table, of a type that our craftsmen would surely have
been aware of, see Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley and
Carl L. Crossman, 《中國貿易與裝飾藝術：繪畫、傢俱、異國珍奇》 Anita Christy, Chinese Furniture, One Hundred Examples from the
，骨董藏家俱樂部，英國薩福克郡，1991 年，第 236 頁，彩版 87 Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, New York, 1996, pp. 150-151,
The Magazine Antiques 雜志，1992 年二月，Carl L. Crossman 文 no. 54.
《中國外銷家俱》第 337 頁，圖 XI

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