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The present lot represents the superb workmanship achieved by Compare with a related ‘wine-table’ of very similar shape with flush
craftsmen working in the Imperial Furniture Workshop during the Ming mitred bridle joint, Mid Ming dynasty, but tielimu with lacquered top,
dynasty. Polychrome lacquer became popular in the late Ming dynasty, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture,
either brush painted or gold-engraved and coloured in the more Hong Kong, 1990, p.78, B36;. another similarly shaped lacquer
onerous qianjin-and-tianqi technique. table, with Wanli six-character mark and of the period, in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Imperial Furniture of Ming and Qing
Tables of this shape were depicted in paintings as early as the Song Dynasties, Beijing, 2007, p.142, no.155.
dynasty, such as one titled Xizhi xie zhao tu, in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Chuang Family Bequest of Fine
Ming and Qing Furniture in the Shanghai Museum, Hong Kong,
1998, p.58 (detail).