17TH CENTURY

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A FINE HUANGHUALI RECESSED LEG TABLE, PINGTOUAN
17TH CENTURY
The well-carved rectangular top set with a single wide panel with rounded corners within a framework above a straight narrow apron with apron-head spandrels, joined to legs of circular section, the recessed legs joined by double stretchers of oval section
32 2/3 in. (83 cm.) high, 87 in. (221 cm.) wide, 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Other examples are illustrated in R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, pp. 155 and 249, no. 51 by G. Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, pl. 46, no. 36 and by R. D. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999, pp. 122-3, no. 40. See also the table of very similar size and proportions sold in these rooms, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September, 1996, lot 75; and another, from the Jingguangtang Collection, also sold at Christie's, New York, 20 March, 1997, lot 9.

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