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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION

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A RARE WALNUT DEMI-LUNE TABLE

17TH-18TH CENTURY
The single-panel top is set within a semi-circular frame over a narrow waist and shaped and beaded
aprons carved with intertwined lotus scroll. The whole is raised on four ornate cabriole legs terminating in
upswept foliate-form feet on the semi-circular base stretcher.
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 47 in. (119.4 cm.) wide, 23æ in. (60.3 cm.) deep
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE

Schoeni Fine Oriental Art, Hong Kong, 1990s.
Half-round tables are recorded in the Ming carpenter’s manuals, Lu Ban Jing, suggesting they were once
more common than the few surviving examples would seem to indicate. A demi-lune table and two
outline drawings are illustated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, p. 118,
B125-B127.
Thought to be made in pairs, demi-lune tables were designed to be pushed together to form a single
round table, or used separately as console tables. The half-width of the rear legs of the present table
suggests this table would have been made as one of a pair. When matched with its mate, the table’s half
legs would appear to be a single leg.
十七/十八世紀 核桃木雕蓮紋帶托泥半月桌

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