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A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI SQUARE ‘IMMORTALS’ TABLE, 來源：
BAXIAN ZHUO 佛朗西斯高•瑪利亞，塔里安利•得•馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968）
Late Ming Dynasty, 16th/17th century 及馬加烈特•奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利•得•馬基奧女侯爵
The top set with a fine large well-figured ‘floating panel’, above a （1894-1986）伉儷收藏
u-shaped apron, outlined by similarly curving struts tennoned to the 據傳於1939年4月15日購自北平古董商Robert M. Drummond
gently tapering cylindrical legs with buttress spandrels.
92cm (36 1/4in) square x 80cm (31 1/2in) high. 出版及著錄：
古斯塔夫•艾克（Gustav Ecke）著，《Chinese Domestic Furniture
£20,000 - 30,000 （中國室內傢俱）》，北京，1944年，編號54，圖71
CNY180,000 - 270,000 （書中註為Robert及William Drummond藏品，而塔翁即向前者購入此桌）

Robert and William Drummond were Chinese furniture dealers in
明末十六/十七世紀 黃花梨一腿三牙高羅鍋帳八仙桌 Beijing during the first half of the 20th century. Dr Gustav Ecke in his
seminal publication Chinese Domestic Furniture, Beijing, 1944, made
Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 - a particular mention of “Robert and William Drummond, whose active
1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order interest has enriched the present collection and the homes of many
of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius Peking residents”.
IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Maragaretha d’Austria
Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
Acquired from Robert M. Drummond, Beijing, probably on 15 April
1939.

Published and Illustrated: Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic
Furniture, Beijing, 1944, no.54, pl.71 (the present lot is noted in Ecke’s
publication as owned by Robert and William Drummond, from whom
Marchese Taliani acquired the present lot)

(invoice)

(inventory list)

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