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Large single-panel huanghuali tables, such as the present example, are 紐☼私́珍藏
A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG TABLE
17TH-18TH CENTURY extremely rare. The panel is textured and enlivened by the active and 十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀ǎ黃花梨平頭案
beautifully-figured grain which nicely compliments the spare, economic
The single-panel top is set in a rectangular frame above plain, beaded apron lines typical of this form. Tables of this large size would also be ideal for Ϝ源
and ruyi-form spandrels. The whole is raised on gently splayed, round-section the appreciation of a painting. A large painting table of slightly smaller
legs joined by pairs of stretchers. proportions (77 3/8 in. wide) with openwork panels between pairs of 7BMMJO (BMMFSJFT
康涅Ṽ格州威ḓ頓
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31æ in. (80.6 cm.) high, 82º in. (208.9 cm.) wide, 23¿ in. (58.7 cm.) deep stretchers is illustrated by Robert Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood
Examples of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1970, p. 155, pl. 51,
$150,000-250,000 51a and 51b. Another similarly proportioned recessed-leg table, now in
the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was sold in Christie’s
PROVENANCE: New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical
Vallin Galleries, Wilton, Connecticut, 1989. Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 16.
