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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTOR
~886
A RECTANGULAR HUANGHUALI CORNER-LEG TABLE,
BANZHUO
17TH CENTURY
The paneled-top is set within a rectangular frame above a narrow waist
and shaped, beaded aprons carved with conjoined foral scroll. The whole
is raised on beaded, square-section legs terminating in hoof feet joined by
humpback stretchers.
30¬ in. (77.8 cm.) high, 30Ω in. (77.5 cm.) wide, 17¿ in. (43.5 cm.) deep
$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Nicholas Grindley, London, 1980s.
The form of the present table, with its simple, elegant lines, is one of the
most successful, and popular forms found in Chinese furniture construction,
dating the Ming and the Qing dynasties. A huanghuali corner-leg table of
related proportions, carved on the aprons with dragon scroll, is in the Qing
Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum - Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong,
2002, p. 112, no. 95. Another table of this form, dated to the 16th century, is
illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, pl. 66.
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