19TH CENTURY

It is suggested that furniture inlaid with burlwood, bamboo and archaistic jades, is typical of the Jiangsu style of court furniture. A similar zitan corner-leg table, dated to the mid-Qing period, and similarly decorated with a simulated rope-twist design linking jade discs is illustrated by Tian Jiaqing, Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 176, no. 76. (Fig. 1) A related zitan table carved in openwork with the same rope-twist and bi-disc design along the narrow waist in the Qing Court Collection, and dated to the Qianlong period, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, p. 104, no. 92.