Compare the serpentine-top huanghuali table stand with spreading legs, formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, sold in these rooms September 19, 1996, lot 1. An example with transverse feet is illustrated by Robert H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 1971, no. 154, pps. 236 and 269