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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

Property from the Collection of Jonathan and Jessika Auerbach
~1106
The present flush-sided table combines rigid geometric form with
A RARE HUANGHUALI WAISTLESS FLUSH- simple and elegant lines. The lines are restrained yet fluid, deviating
CORNER-LEG SIDE TABLE only at the gently flared hoof-form foot. The sophisticated design
17TH-18TH CENTURY and superb carpentry are typical of the Suzhou region in the late
Ming period. Furniture of this form is likely derived from the earlier
28æ in. (73 cm.) high, 28 in. (71.1 cm.) wide, 16w in. (42.9 cm.) deep
method of box-construction. For an early version of a simianping table
$60,000-80,000 illustrated in a painting of the Song dynasty, see Special Exhibition of
Furniture in Chinese Paintings, The National Palace Museum, Taipei,
PROVENANCE:
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, mid 1990s. 1996, pp. 50-1, no. 19.
P
Property from a West Coast Collection
A table of similar construction but not as deep is in the Lu Ming
Jonathan 暨 Jessika Auerbach伉儷珍藏
1
1104 Shi Collection, dated to the late 16th or early 17th century, and is
1
十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀 黃花梨ो面平條桌 illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce in Living with Ming - the Lu Ming
A Ϝ源 Shi Collection, p. 110, no. 23. A huanghuali and nanmu lute table of
A BURLWOOD STATIONARY BOX
8
1 18TH CENTURY 嘉木ਕ, 香港, 1990年代中期
similar construction and with ‘giant’s arm braces’, currently in the
8æ in. (22.5 cm.) high, 19¿ in. (48.5 cm.) wide, 10æ Minneapolis Institute of Art, is illustrated by R. D. Jacobsen and N.
8
n
i in. (27.3 cm.) deep Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of
$ $8,000-12,000 Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 104-105, no. 32, where the use of a central
nanmu panel enhanced the resonance of the qin when played. A
美
美४西岸私́珍藏 huanghuali flush-corner table of larger proportion was sold at Christie’s
清十Ջˠ紀 ⅞木小箱
清 New York, 17 September 2008, lot 157.
1104

Pipa Ji (The Story of the Lute),
Wanli edition.
Ǘ琵琶〦ǘ，明萬曆ח本

Property from a West Coast Collection
~1105
A SMALL HUANGHUALI BOX
18TH-19TH CENTURY
4 in. (10.5 cm.) high, 6¿ in. (15.7 cm.) wide, 5 in. (12.7
cm.) deep
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE:
In San Francisco by 2013.

清十Ջ 十̏ˠ紀 黃花梨小箱
Ϝ源
2013年於舊金山
1105

1106
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