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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
977
A MAGNIFICENT AND MASSIVE IMPERIAL ZITAN
CORNER-LEG TABLE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The paneled top is set in a rectangular frame above the narrow waist
carved with cartouches framing bats in flight amidst scrolling clouds
and a shaped apron carved with archaistic scroll. The whole is raised
on beaded, square-section legs terminating in scroll-form feet, and set
with openwork archaistic-scroll-form corner spandrels.
35Ω in. (90.2 cm.) high, 92æ in. (235.6 cm.) wide, 21¿ in. (53.7 cm.) deep

$300,000-500,000

The current table installed in George Walter Vincent Smith’s drawing room, circa 1909.
Photographer unknown.
此件紫檀條桌陳設於史喬沃先生家中會客廳，1909年前後。