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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A HUANGHUALI AND GREEN STONE-INSET FLUSH-SIDED The present table with a flush-sided construction has a simple
CORNER-LEG TABLE, BANZHUO form that relies on the perfection of its proportions for its beauty.
Late Ming Dynasty Its framework sets off perfectly the complex pattern of the green
The dark green stone top set within a rectangular huanghuali frame stone panel inset in the frame top. The elegantly shaped humpback
with an ‘ice plate’ edge, supported directly on corner legs of square stretchers with its high placement, touching the apron, is an unusual
section joined by high square section humpback-shaped stretchers design that contributes to the classical form.
with a pronounced arch rising up to touch the apron, the legs
terminating in hoof feet. Flush-sided corner-leg tables with high placement of humpback
91cm (35 7/8in) wide x 56.5cm (22 1/4in) deep x 83.5cm (32 7/in) high. stretchers are very rare. Compare a Ming dynasty waisted huanghuali
corner-leg table, with similar placement of the humpback stretchers,
HKD1,500,000 - 2,000,000 illustrated by G.Wu Bruce, Ming Furniture Through My Eyes, Beijing,
US$190,000 - 260,000 2016, p.46. See another similar but waisted table, 17th century,
illustrated by M.Flacks, Classical Chinese Furniture, New York, 2012,
明晚期 黃花梨嵌石面高羅鍋棖四面平桌 pp.230-231.

Provenance: Compare also a similar huanghuali side table, 17th century, but with
An important Asian private collection a waisted apron, which was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 11-12
September 2012, lot 228. See also a pudding-stone-inset huanghuali
來源： high-waist incense table, late Ming dynasty, in the Dr S. Y. Yip
重要亞洲私人收藏 collection, illustrated by G.Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber
and the Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection
of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp.54-55, which was
later sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2015, lot 132.

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