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A RARE HUANGHUALI GAMES TABLE Games tables are a rare form. In the Ming and Qing periods, special games
18TH CENTURY tables were ftted with various boards and containers for games pieces.
The square top is detailed with rounded and beaded edges, with a small Since double sixes, chess and weiqi were all popular Ming and Qing board
shallow drawer to the centre of each side. The shaped legs are detachable. games, it was convenient to have all the equipment needed to play them in
32¼ in. (82 cm.) wide, 30⅝in. (77.8 cm.) high one table.
£20,000-30,000 US$27,000-39,000 A huanghuali square game table in Dr S.Y. Yip's collection is illustrated
€24,000-35,000
by Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with
Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture,
清十八世紀 黃花梨方桌 Hong Kong, 1991, cat. 28, pp. 82-83. Another square zitan example in the T.
T. Tsui Museum of Art , Hong Kong, is illustrated by Sarah Handler, Austere
Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2001,
來源: 英國私人珍藏 p. 201, fg. 12.19.

A huanghuali square games table previously in the Gangolf Geis Collection
was sold at New York Christie's, 18 September 2003, lot 21.

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