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A RARE HUANGHUALI CORNER-LEG TABLE, FANGZHUO For dining, writing, appreciating antiques, or playing games, the square
18th century table is the most versatile in Chinese furniture. The high, humpback
The top of standard mitre, mortise and tenon frame, floating-single stretchers of the present lot strengthens the table while lightening the
panel construction resting on a recessed waist and straight beaded- overall appearance, and not interfering with the knees of the sitters.
edge apron carved with stylised and interlocking floral scrolls, all
supported on square section legs beaded to the inner edge, tenoned Compare with a similar table, with carved aprons, illustrated by
to the mitred frame and terminating in well-drawn hoof feet, joined by S.Handler, Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture, Berkeley
beaded hump-back shaped stretchers mortised and tenoned into the and Toronto, 2005, p.167. See an earlier related huanghuali table,
legs below the apron. Ming dynasty, illustrated in Ming Qing gongting jiaju daguan, vol.1,
91cm (35 3/4inin) wide x 92cm (36 1/4in) deep x 87cm (34 1/4in) high. Beijing, 2006, p.181, pl.188.

Compare with a similar huanghuali square corner-leg table, 17th/18th
£50,000 - 70,000 century, which was sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1322.
CNY440,000 - 610,000

十八世紀 黃花梨方桌

Provenance: a British private collection, formed circa 1980s-1990s.

來源：英國私人收藏，成形於約二十世紀八十年代至九十年代

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