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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
~828
A HUANGHUALI SQUARE LOW TABLE The present side table is based on a form which has detachable legs, for
17TH CENTURY use as a demountable table. Tables of this type were made to be easily
disassembled to facilitate transport. However, there are several known
The paneled top is set in a square frame above a narrow waist and cusped,
beaded apron carved with interlocking scroll. The whole is raised on legs examples with fixed legs, in which the legs have been carved to imitate
of round section carved at the corners with cabriole "legs" in imitation of a their detachable counterparts. This fascination with artifice was in
demountable kang table, further joined by scrolling corner spandrels. fashion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and can be seen
in exquisite examples found in the decorative arts.
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high, 39Ω in. (100.3 cm.) wide, 39¿ in. (99.4 cm.) deep
An eighteenth-century square fixed-leg “demountable” table of similar
$25,000-35,000 proportions, and also reduced in height, was sold at Christie’s New York,
7-24 July 2020, lot 81.
PROVENANCE:
Vanderbilt Collection, by repute.
Acquired in Manchester, New Hampshire, circa 1990s.
十七世紀 黃花梨矮方桌
來源:
Vanderbilt 珍藏(傳)。
於1990年代前後購自曼徹斯特, 新罕布夏州。