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A TIANQI LACQUER ALTAR TABLE
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1620)

明萬曆 朱漆戧金細鉤填漆花卉紋長案

The rectangular top is decorated with a garden landscape scene depicting various plants and fowers
including bamboo, lingzhi, magnolia and peony trees amongst rocks, with a small bird perched on a rocky
outcrop, all reserved on a foral diaper red and gold ground. The sides of the table top and the square-
section legs are decorated with leafy scrolling lotus blooms. The openwork apron is decorated with
chrysanthemum blooms divided by meandering scrolling tendrils. The legs terminate in hoof feet.

35 in. (89 cm.) high, 88Ω in. (225.5 cm.) wide, 25 in. (64 cm.) deep

£60,000-80,000 $92,000-120,000
€82,000-110,000

See a similar table from the Lord Fairhoven Collection, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, UK, illustrated in
Chinese Furniture, by Michael Beurdeley, Kodansha International, New York, 1979, p. 107, no. 145. Also in
the same publication a similarly decorated table from Musee Guimet is illustrated on p. 112, no. 154.

See also a table illustrated in, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2002, p.125, no. 110.

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