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propertY oF a neW YorK prIVate CoLLeCtIon PROVENANCE
A RARE SQUARE-MEMBER ‘HUANGHUALI’ Grace Wu Bruce, hong Kong.
RECESSED-LEG TABLE (PINGTOUAN) american private Collection, 1998.
17TH CENTURY ◉ $ 500,000-700,000
the well figured single board, tongue-and-grooved, floating
panel set into a solid straight-edge frame of standard miter, 十七世紀 黃花梨夾頭榫平頭案
mortise and tenon construction with exposed tenons on
either short side, supported underneath by five dovetailed 來源
transverse stretchers, the elegantly splayed rectangular 嘉木堂，香港
legs cut to house the plain straight apron and right-angled 美國私人收藏，1998年
spandrels and joined by two square-section stretchers
height 32 in., 81.3 cm; Width 85½ in., 217 cm; Depth 21⅞ in.,
55.6 cm

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