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A LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-
LEG TABLE, PINGTOU’AN
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The single-panel top set into a broad frame with ‘ice-plate’
edges, supported on legs of round section joined by pairs of
oval stretchers with plain aprons and apron-head spandrels.
32 ⅝ in. (82.8 cm.) high, 81 ½ in. (207.1 cm.) wide,
20 ⅞ in. (53 cm.) deep
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 US$130,000-190,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 160
The Heveningham Hall Collection
The spare, economical lines of this design make it one of the
classic forms of Chinese furniture. The basic proportions were
adapted to make large painting tables, smaller tables, benches
and stools. This form is referred to in the Classic of Lu Ban as a
‘character one’ table due to its similarity in profile to the single
horizontal stroke of the Chinese character for ‘one'.
Several examples of this elegant form have been published. See
Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing
Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1999, p. 143, for a
large huanghuali recessed-leg painting table of similar form, dated
to the 16th or 17th century. See, also, G. Ecke, Chinese Domestic
Furniture, Rutland/Tokyo, 1962, pl. 46, no. 36 for another example
in huanghuali.

明末清初 黃花梨平頭案

來源
紐約佳士得，2008 年 9 月 17 日，拍品編號 160
赫維寧漢莊園珍藏

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