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PROPERTY FROM THE RAYMOND HUNG COLLECTION
~ 2954
A HUANGHUALI CORNER-LEG PAINTING TABLE 清十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨四面平畫案
QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The single-panel top is set into a rectangular frame ‘four-sides- 著錄
flush’ supported on thick square-sectioned legs terminating in 安思遠，尼古拉斯．葛瑞德雷，柯安霓合著，《洪氏所藏木器
short hoof feet. The gracefully-curved and slightly-recessed 百圖》，上冊，紐約，1996 年，頁 156-157，編號 57
humpback stretchers are of square section, and touch the underside
of the top frame. 此可拆式黃花梨畫案造型簡練質樸，體積碩大，用料奢豪為其一大特色。
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 78 in. (198.2 cm.) wide, 畫案採四面平式無束腰，桌面用粽角榫與腿足相交，各腿間以羅鍋棖固
22 Ω in. (57.2 cm.) deep 定，內翻馬蹄足。羅鍋棖的轉折將平直硬拐的畫案看來更為委婉自然。桌
面邊框下段仍見有一微凹線腳，依稀見其沿各桌腿內側直貫平坦之蹄足。
HK$3,000,000-5,000,000 US$390,000-640,000
類似畫案有數例可供參好，其中一件束腰窄小，桌腿下收，為紐約佳士得
LITERATURE 20001 年 3 月 21 日，拍品 8 號；另一件為無束腰霸王棖方桌，其刊載於
R. Hatfield Ellsworth, N. Grindley and Anita Christy, Chinese 安思遠，《中國傢具：明至清初的硬木實例》，新費爾菲爾德，1970 年，
Furniture: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung 編號 54。
Collection, vol. I, New York, 1996, pp. 156-157, no. 57
The unusual and rustic form of this table, with its distinct lack of
ornamentation and stripped down construction, only highlights its
massive form and generous use of huanghuali. Lacking a waist or
aprons, the structure is supported purely by the solid members of the
frame and legs, and by the sinuous curve of the humpback stretchers,
which directly abut the underside of the table frame itself. The rigid
angularity of the form is softened somewhat by the curve of the
stretchers, and by the restrained groove cut into the inside edge of the
outside face of the legs.
Few examples of this form are known; a related example, but with
tapering legs and with diminutive aprons, was sold at Christie’s New
York, 21 March 2000, lot 8. Another corner-leg table with square legs
and without aprons, but with ‘giant’s arm’ braces instead of humpback
stretchers, is illustrated by R. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood
Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New Fairfield, CT,
1970, no. 54.

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