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A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG
PAINTING TABLE, HUA-AN
Late Ming Dynasty, 17th century
The three-board top set into a mitre, mortise-
and-tenon frame with double ‘ice-plate’ edge
and exposed tenons on the short side, the plain
u-shaped aprons butted and half-lapped into the
circular shaped legs joined by paired transverse
oval stretchers.
157cm wide (61 3/4in) x 78cm (30 3/4in) high x
54.8cm (21 1/2in) deep.

£30,000 - 50,000
CNY270,000 - 450,000

明末十七世紀 黃花梨夾頭榫畫案

Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de
Marchio (1887 - 1968), Grand Officer of the Italian
Crown, Commander of the Order of St Maurice
and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of
Pius IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess
Maragaretha d’Austria Toscana, Marchesa Taliani
de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
Acquired from Robert M. Drummond, Beijing,
15 April 1939.

Robert and William Drummond were Chinese
furniture dealers in Beijing during the first half of
the 20th century. Dr Gustav Ecke in his seminal
publication Chinese Domestic Furniture, Beijing,
1944, made a particular mention of “Robert and
William Drummond, whose active interest has
enriched the present collection and the homes of
many Peking residents”.

來源：
佛朗西斯高•瑪利亞，塔里安利•得•馬基奧侯爵
（1887-1968）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（1894-1986）伉儷收藏
於1939年4月15日購自北平古董商Robert M. Drummond

(invoice)

(inventory list)

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