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FIVE PAINTINGS A LARGE HONGMU MARBLE-TOP Compare with a zitan demi-lune table,
19th century without the marble top, and carved with
Tempera on board, depicting scenes of CONSOLE TABLE rococo style foliage in the Palace Museum,
19th century
daily life including ladies playing dominoes, The lobed top inset with a mottled marble Beijing, illustrated in Ming Qing Guting Jiaju
ladies drinking wine, playing in the garden, panel of pink-tone, supported on four cabriole Daquan, vol.II, Beijing, 2006, fig.178. The
gentlemen praying to the ancestors and legs issuing from beast-heads and terminating taste for floral and rococo style carving in
playing board games, glazed and framed. with scaly fish-dragon creatures, joined with furniture appears to have been particularly
49.5cm (19 1/2in) wide x 35cm (12in) long (5). stretchers, the elaborate frieze carved with a popular within the Qing Court. European-style
central cartouche enclosing a Chinese opera floral scroll work can also be seen on the
£4,000 - 6,000 scene, all surrounded by squirrels and grapes, apron of a red sandalwood chair in the Qing
CNY35,000 - 53,000 the wood with an attractive dark patina. Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete
150cm (59 1/16in) x 75cm (29 1/2in) x Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
十九世紀 外銷畫一組五幅 86.5cm (34in). Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II),
Hong Kong, 2002, pl.55.

Provenance: a European private collection £5,000 - 8,000 Compare with a related hongmu and marble-
CNY44,000 - 71,000 inset console table, 19th century, which was
來源：歐洲私人收藏 sold at Christie’s London, 9 November 2016,
十九世紀 紅木鏤雕人物故事圖嵌大理石邊桌 lot 329. See also a similar marble top demi-
lune hardwood table, 19th century, which was
sold at Bonhams London, 5 November 2009,
lot 293.

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