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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
~937
A RARE HUANGHUALI CORNER-LEG TABLE
17TH CENTURY
The single-panel foating top is set into the molded, rectangular frame above a narrow waist and beaded
apron. The whole is raised on tapering, beaded legs of square section terminating in hoof feet and joined
by beaded humpback stretchers.
34 in. (86.4 cm.) high, 40æ in. (103.5 cm.) wide, 19æ in. (50.2 cm.) deep
$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Grace Wu Bruce.
A closely related table of this form, of larger size (116.8 cm. wide), is illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth,
Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, pl. 66, and was sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 169.
See another huanghuali corner-leg table of the same form, sold at Christie’s New York, 17-18 March
2016, lot 1308, where it was dated 17th century.
十七世紀 黃花梨有束腰馬蹄足半桌

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