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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN This form is known as a qiaotou'an, or 'everted end recessed-leg table,'
17TH CENTURY although the late Ming style-maker Wen Zhenheng termed it bizhuo, or
'wall table,' as it was commonly used against a wall to display works of
The single, floating panel is set in the rectangular frame fitted flush at both
art or to hold offerings. Tables of the present type tend to feature long,
narrow ends with everted ends, above the beaded apron and shaped, beaded
single-plank tops and thick members. Such tables also feature aprons with
spandrels carved with stylized archaistic scroll. The whole is raised on finely
integral spandrels which are joined by dovetail-housing to the trestle legs,
beaded trestle legs joined by shaped openwork panels and fitted into shoe
providing added structural support. The angular scrollwork on the spandrels
feet.
is very rare and deviates from the more typically seen ruyi-form spandrels.
34 in. (86.4 cm.) high, 84 ºin. (213.9 cm.) wide, 19 æ in. (50.2 cm.) deep
A huanghuali trestle-leg table with the more commonly seen ruyi-form
spandrels was sold at Christie’s New York, 17-18 March 2016, lot 1314.
$200,000-300,000

PROVENANCE: 美國西岸私人珍藏
Grace Wu Bruce, London, 2004.
十七世紀 黃花梨夾頭榫翹頭案
來源:
嘉木堂，倫敦，2004年。

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