17TH-18TH CENTURY

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A Huanghuali Recessed-Leg Painting Table, Pingtouan
17th-18th century
The single top panel set within a broad frame with 'ice-plate' edge, supported on four solid legs of melon section joined by a beaded apron with cloud-form spandrels, the double stretchers joining the front and back legs similarly of melon section
31¼in. (79.4cm.) high, 74½in. (189.2cm.) wide, 20½in. (52.1cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A recessed-leg table of comparable proportions and with similarly carved cloud-form spandrels is illustrated by R.D. Jacobsen and N. Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, p. 124, no. 41. A similar piece also appears in R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, p. 153, cat. 49.

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