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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ARNOLD AND MAIDEE KIRKEBY, BEL AIR, CALIFORNIA
~788
A HUAMU-INSET HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG TABLE The clustered and swirled graining of the burl panel is suggestive of a
17TH CENTURY landscape or abstract painting. Burl panels were often incorporated into
The single huamu burl panel is set in a thick huanghuali frame above beaded furniture to provide a decorative element, and the aesthetic created a striking
aprons and cloud-form spandrels. The whole is raised on gently splayed legs of contrast between the textured graining of burl and the amber tones of
round section joined by pairs of stretchers on the sides. huanghuali. When chosen for table tops, the abstract patterning was meant
to enhance displays of antiques and works of art. The natural qualities of the
31æ in. (80.6 cm.) high, 76Ω in. (194.3 cm.) wide, 21º in. (54 cm.) deep burl would have been attractive to scholars and poets who have long found
inspiration in the natural world.
$100,000-150,000
A burl-inset huanghuali recessed-leg table with cloud-form spandrels is
PROVENANCE: illustrated by M. Flacks in Classical Chinese Furniture: a very personal point of
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 9 April 1998. view, London, 2011, pp. 214. Another massive burl-inset huanghuali recessed-
leg painting table, formerly of the Lai Family collection, was sold by Christie's
ARNOLD 及 MAIDEE KIRKEBY 珍藏, 貝萊爾, 加州 New York, 17 September 2015, lot 919.
十七世紀 黃花梨嵌樺木癭平頭案
來源:
嘉木堂, 香港, 1998年4月9日

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