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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
A ‘HUANGHUALI’ CORNER-LEG TABLE
(BANZHUO)
17TH CENTURY
the top of standard miter, mortise and tenon frame and ! ush,
tongue-and-grooved, double-board ! oating-panel construction
supported by three dovetailed transverse stretchers
underneath, two with exposed tenons, the short rails of the
frame top with further exposed tenons, the edge of the frame
molding downward and inward, all resting on a recessed waist
and straight apron, the legs tenoned to the mitered frame and
terminating in well drawn hoof feet and joined by hump-back
shaped stretchers mortised and tenoned into the legs below
the apron
Height 33 in., 83.8 cm: Width 41 in., 104.1 cm; Depth 20½ in.,
52.1 cm
PROVENANCE
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1990s.
For a very similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum
collection, see Craig Clunas, Chinese Furniture, Victoria and
Albert Museum Far Eastern Series, London, 1988, p. 48. A
611 table of the same form and similar proportions was sold in our
Hong Kong rooms, 5th October 2016, lot 3019. Another nearly
identical table was sold in these rooms, 16th September 2014,
lot 199.
Ⴚ $ 40,000-60,000
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED CALIFORNIA
COLLECTION
A ‘HUANGHUALI’ AND HUAMU SINGLE
DRAWER COFFER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the rectangular two-board panel top set within a frame
of standard miter, mortise and tenon construction, with
‘water stopping’ molded edge over plain spandreled aprons,
all supported on four slightly splayed cylindrical legs, and
enclosing a wide single drawer veneered with an attractively
" gured burlwood panel and set with a simple brass bail handle,
the side and back panels similarly veneered, above further
plain spandreled aprons joining the legs
Height 24¾ in., 62.9 cm; Width 21½in., 54.6 cm; Depth 16 in.,
40.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1990s.
Compare a similar single-drawer huanghuali and hongmu
co> er with ! anges carved in relief with stylized dragons from a
private collection in Tianjin, illustrated in Dr. S.Y. Yip and Grace
Wu Bruce, Feast by a Wine Table Reclining on a Couch, Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, cat. no. 25.
Ⴚ $ 30,000-50,000
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