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~636 明萬曆 黃花梨雙龍戲珠紋炕桌

AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE HUANGHUALI 來源
KANG TABLE, KANGZHUO 嘉木堂，香港
英國私人收藏，倫敦
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1620) 嘉木堂，香港
The two-panel top is set in a rectangular frame with a ‘water stopping’ edge, above 瑪麗·泰瑞莎·L·維勒泰 (1923-2015) 珍藏
a narrow waist. The shaped, beaded apron is crisply carved with confronting
fve-clawed dragons chasing a faming pearl and further carved at the corners with 展覽
stylized ruyi in imitation of ruyi-form metal mounts. The whole is raised on elegant 嘉木堂，香港，1994年，《Best of the Best - An Exhibition of Ming Furniture from
cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet and raised on square chucks, together with, Private Collections》
Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Classical Furniture, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 嘉木堂，倫敦，1998年11月17-28日，《On the Kang and between the Walls - Ming
1995. Furniture Quietly Installed》

12æ in. (32.4 cm.) high, 38Ωin. (98 cm.) wide, 27æ in. (70.3 cm.) deep 文獻
伍嘉恩，《Oriental Art》，1991-2年冬季號，卷36，編號4，卷首及223頁
$500,000-700,000 伍嘉恩，《Chinese Classical Furniture》，牛津大學出版社，香港，1995年，
圖版編號16
PROVENANCE 伍嘉恩，《On the Kang and between the Walls - Ming Furniture Quietly
Installed》，倫敦，1998年，編號12
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.
Private English collection, London.
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

EXHIBITED

Hong Kong, Grace Wu Bruce, 1994, Best of the Best - An Exhibition of Ming Furniture
from Private Collections.
London, Grace Wu Bruce, 17-28 November 1998, On the Kang and between the Walls
- Ming Furniture Quietly Installed, no.12.

LITERATURE

Grace Wu Bruce, ‘Examples of Classic Chinese Furniture -3. An Imperial Table’,
Oriental Art, Winter 1991-2, Vol. XXXVII, no. 4, frontispiece and p. 223.
Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Classical Furniture, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong,
1995, pl. 16
Grace Wu Bruce, On the Kang and between the Walls - Ming Furniture Quietly
Installed, London, 1998, no. 12.

As published by Grace Wu Bruce. Alternate view.
伍嘉恩之著錄以不同角度展示本拍品。

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