Live Auction 2297Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
A HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE, PINGTOUAN
Lot 1225PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION

A HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE, PINGTOUAN

17TH CENTURY

Closed26 March 2010

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USD 80,500

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A HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE, PINGTOUAN
17TH CENTURY
The three-panel top set within a wide rectangular frame above plain, beaded aprons and apron-head spandrels, all supported on legs of rounded section joined by pairs of stretchers
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 43 in. (111.1 cm.) wide, 21 7/8 in. (55.5 cm.) deep

Christie's, New York, 19 March 2008, lot 374.

Specialist note

This simple, refined form is one of the classic forms found in furniture of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Compare a similarly proportioned recessed-leg table, illustrated by Wang Shixiang et al., Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1990, no. B81.