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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

2035
A HUANGHUALI CORNER-LEG TABLE, TIAOZHUO
17TH CENTURY

The wide, rectangular frame with molded, beaded edge is above a
narrow waist and plain aprons with beaded edge. The whole is raised
on beaded legs of square section joined by humpback stretchers and
terminating in hoof feet.
34 in. (86.3 cm.) high, 66æ in. (169.5 cm.) wide, 19æ in. (50 cm.)
deep

$150,000-200,000

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 1997, lot 381.

The form of the present table, with its simple, elegant lines, is one of
the most successful, and popular, forms found in Chinese furniture
construction, and is readily evident from the Ming dynasty throughout the
Qing.

A closely related table of this form, of smaller size, is illustrated by R.H.
Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, pl. 66, and was sold at
Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 169. See, another huanghuali
corner-leg table of the same form, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 March
2008, lot 378, where it was dated to the 17th century; and another similar,
but slightly shorter (139.3 cm. long) huanghuali corner-leg table sold at
Christie’s New York, 16 September 2011, lot 1321.

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