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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
~873
A LARGE RECTANGULAR HUANGHUALI KANG TABLE
17TH CENTURY
The paneled top is set within a rectangular frame carved with a beaded, ‘ice- While dragons are frequently carved on the aprons of full-sized tables,
plate’ edge and a plain, narrow waist. The beaded, cusped aprons are carved the ball-and-claw feet and lion mask seen on the present table seem to
with confronting chilong and scrolls, all raised on elegant cabriole legs carved be reserved for beds and kang tables. A similar haunghuali kang table
at the corners with lion masks and terminating in claw feet. of comparable size and with similar ball-and claw feet and lion mask is
11æ in. (30 cm.) high, 40√ in. (103.9 cm.) wide, 27º in. (69.2 cm.) deep illustrated by G. Bruch in Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with
Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture,
Hong Kong, 1991, no. 30, pp. 86-87, and subsequently sold at The Dr. S.Y.
$50,000-70,000
Yip Collection of Fine and Important Classical Chinese Furniture, Christie’s
New York, 20 September 2002, lot 10. Another similar example but with an
unusual convex waist is illustrated in Nicholas Grindley, June 1998, no. 11. A
smaller example also with convex waist was sold at The Mr. and Mrs. Robert
P. Piccus Collection of Fine Classical Chinese Furniture, Christie’s, New York,
18 September, 1997, lot 31.
十七世紀 黃花梨螭龍紋炕桌

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