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Demountable trestle-leg tables, which are made to be easily disassembled to facilitate transport, are
very rare. There appear to be two types of demountable, recessed trestle-leg tables.
The frst type exhibits straight legs, which are set into shoe feet. The second variant, which includes the
current table, has everted feet. A rare tielimu table, with an inscription dating it to 1640, in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, carved with similar stylized elephants on the spandrels, and a smaller huanghuali
trestle-leg table carved with hornless elephants on the spandrel are illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong,
2002, p. 166, pl. 141 and p. 157, pl. 135.

條案大致可分爲兩類，一類為直腿，足下帶托泥。另一類則如此例，腿稍外撇。北京故宮博物院藏一例
刻有崇禎庚辰紀年之鐵梨象紋翹頭案，及另一例尺寸較小的黃花梨雙螭紋翹頭案，兩近似例之牙頭均
有與本拍品牙頭裝飾相仿之象紋，詳見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集-明清家具 (上)》, 香港，2002年，
頁166，圖版141號，以及頁157，圖版135號。