A HUANGHUALI WINE TABLE, JIUZHUO

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A HUANGHUALI WINE TABLE, JIUZHUO
16TH/17TH CENTURY

The framed rectangular top on the slightly splayed round legs, the front and back legs joined by double stretchers, the apron with beaded edge and meeting the legs with cloud-collar spandrels set with small beads, the wood of good color--32½in. (82.6cm.) high, 37¾in. (95.8cm.) wide, 17in. (43.2cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Compare the two tables with plain aprons and cloud-collar spandrels, but with single stretchers joining the legs, one in the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the other in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Biddle, illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture, New York, 1970, pp. 69-70, tables 170, 171

Another table with stretchers joining the legs but with tops terminating in upturned ends in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by Craig Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, ills. 38, 39, p. 52