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
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