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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Dr Otto Buchard (1892-1965) was a famous dealer of
A ‘HUANGHUALI’ LOW TABLE (KANGZHUO) Chinese art and a specialist on Song dynasty ceramics.
17TH / 18TH CENTURY He lived in Beijing but had a gallery in Berlin and an agent
in New York. A side table with upturned ends was sold by
the well-figured single board floating panel top of typical Dr. Burchard to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
miter, mortise and tenon construction terminating in everted City, Missouri in 1946 and is also illustrated in Gustav Ecke,
flanges at either short end, supported on the underside with Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, 1962, pl. 57, no. 43.
two transverse stretchers, over a narrow waist and straight
beaded-edge apron joining the square-section legs ending in ◉ $ 25,000-35,000
inward facing hoof feet
Height 13 in., 33.3 cm: Width 31¾ in., 80.7 cm; Depth 15¾
in., 39.2 cm 十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨有束腰馬蹄足翹
PROVENANCE 頭炕桌
Collection of Dr. Otto Burchard (1892-1965).
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Piccus. 來源
Christie’s New York, 18th September 1997, lot 65. Otto Burchard 博士 (1892-1965) 收藏
Robert Piccus 伉儷收藏
LITERATURE 紐約佳士得1997年9月18日，編號65
Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, 1962,
pl. 74, no. 58. 出版
艾鍔風，《Chinese Domestic Furniture》，佛蒙特
The present table is notable for the upswept flanges set to 州，1962年，圖版74，編號58
either end. This feature more commonly appears on tall
recessed-leg tables and rarely on low tables. Another low
table with everted flanges but with recessed-legs from the
Arthur M. Sackler Collection was sold in these rooms, 16th
September 2009, lot 24.

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