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A RARE AND LARGE HUANGHUALI SQUARE TABLE
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The table is decorated with a wide apron carved with dragons, above scroll-form
spandrels and supported on legs of circular section.
34 in. (86.4 cm.) high, 41 in. (104 cm.) wide

£100,000-200,000 $130,000-260,000
€120,000-230,000

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s New York, 29-30 November 1993, lot 442.
From a distinguished European collection.

The unusual form and design of the present table can be found in some other tables
of smaller sizes. Wang Shi Xiang discusses this in Connoisseurship of Chinese
Furniture, Hong Kong, 1990, vol. I, p. 56. See a similar example in the collection of
the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in ibid., vol. II, pl. 59; and another example
in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, illustrated in Chinese
Furniture, London, 1988, fg. 47.

明末清初 黃花梨龍紋方桌

來源: 重要歐洲私人珍藏, 於1993年11月29-30日在紐約蘇富比拍賣,
拍品442號

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