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A LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG TABLE,
PINGTOU’AN

LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The single-panel top is set within the wide rectangular frame,
above plain aprons and spandrels with beaded edge, the whole
supported on thick beaded rectangular legs bevelled on the outer
side and joined by pairs of square-section stretchers.
31 æ in. (80.6 cm.) high, 95 º in. (242 cm.) wide,
21 º in. (54 cm.) deep

HK$6,000,000-8,000,000 US$780,000-1,000,000

PROVENANCE

A New York private collection, acquired circa 1990s
Nicholas Grindley, London, 2014

This table is a variant of the standard long recessed leg table that
invariably is constructed using round-section legs and most of the
tables of this type with square-section legs with convex outer faces
have cloud scroll rather than plain spandrels. For examples of these see
one illustrated by Robert Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley in Classical
Chinese Furniture in Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, no.
41 and Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, vol.1, The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2002, no. 109.

Tables of this length, 242 cm, usually have a more elaborate design with
everted ends to the top and inset legs with carved aprons and carved
panels between the legs such as the example in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (1996.339) or the example in the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts, op cit, no.42.

A pingtou’an of similarly simple design but with round-section legs and
a single tieli panel is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The
Palace Museum Collection: A Treasury of Ming & Qing Dynasty Palace
Furniture, vol. 1, Beijing, 2007, fig. 286, which was originally placed in
the Shoukang Palace, a residence for Empress Dowagers or Consort
Dowagers during the Qing dynasty.

明末 / 清初 黃花梨獨板平頭案

來源
紐約私人珍藏，入藏於約 1990 年代
Nicholas Grindley，倫敦，2014 年

平頭案多為圓腿，方腿者牙頭則多為雲紋形，如明尼阿波利斯美術館所
藏一例，著錄於《Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of
Arts》，1999 年，圖版 41 號，及北京故宮所藏一例，載於故宮博物院藏
文物珍品大系《明清家具（上）》，上海，2002 年，圖版 109 號。

此案長 242 公分，形體碩大，但通體光素無紋飾，十分罕見。尺寸
相仿者的紋飾多較為複雜，如紐約大都會的一件翹頭案，館藏編號
1996.339，及明尼阿波利斯美術館所藏一例，見前揭書圖版 42 號，兩案
的結構相仿，皆具有牙頭飾龍紋、腿間安橫棖、鑲裝縧環板等特色。

北京故宮藏有一平頭案，高 78 公分，長 235 公分，深 73 公分，整體無
紋飾，造型與此案頗為類似，但為圓腿，而且案面為鐵梨木心，不似此
案通體以黃花梨製成。該案原為清代皇太后、太妃居所壽康宮之物，
載於《故宮博物院藏明清宮廷家具大觀（上）》，北京，2006 年，圖
286。

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