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THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR For dining, writing, appreciating antiques, or playing games, the square table
is one of the most versatile forms in Chinese furniture. Several variations on
1305 the square table exist, including waisted and waistless examples, and those
with decorative struts inset between the apron and stretcher, like the present
A SQUARE HUANGHUALI WAISTLESS CORNER-LEG TABLE, example. A huanghuali table of similar height, ftted with vertical struts but
FANGZHUO without openwork corner spandrels is illustrated by Sarah Handler in Ming
17TH CENTURY Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture, Berkeley, 2005, p. 165.
明末清初 黃花梨無束腰方桌
The paneled top is set in a thick square frame with thumb-grooved
edge. The whole is raised on thick legs of square section joined 1306 No Lot
by straight stretchers framing three reticulated panels and set with
openwork corner spandrels.

34º in. (87 cm.) high, 37º in. (94.6 cm.) square

$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE

Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, mid-1990’s.

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