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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
~739
A RARE HUANGHUALI KANG TABLE Low tables were essential to early mat-level culture. Prints and paintings
18TH-19TH CENTURY show low tables used as display platforms, for playing the qin, or a place
The attractively-grained single-panel top is raised on thick, inward-curving to gather.
legs terminating in scroll-form feet.
The present table has the typical C-curved legs that terminate in small
14Ω in. (36.8 cm.) high, 72Ω in. (184.2 cm.) wide, 14 in. (35.6 cm.) deep
scrolls and a smooth, broad surface that shows off the richly grained
huanghuali wood. A nanmu example from the Shanxi region, dated to the
$40,000-60,000 17th century, constructed with a slightly elevated platform is illustrated
by C. Evarts, C. L. Ma Collection: Traditional Chinese Furniture from the
PROVENANCE:
Greater Shanxi Region, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 218, no. 112.
Robert and William Drummond, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Acquired from the above in 1974.
清十八/十九世紀 黃花梨炕几
LITERATURE: 來源:
W. M. Drummond, "Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early
Scholarship, 1969," reprinted in The Journal of Classical Chinese Furniture, Robert and William Drummond, 紐約。
Summer 1993, pp. 61-62, pl. 11. 亞瑟‧M‧薩克勒珍藏, 紐約。
於1974年得自上述藏家。
出版:
W.M. Drummond, "Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early
Scholarship,“ 1969年, 後刊載於 《The Journal of Classical Chinese
Furniture》, 1993年夏季刊, 頁 61-62, 圖版11號。