A TIANQI LACQUER ALTAR TABLE

WANLI PERIOD (1573-1620)

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A TIANQI LACQUER ALTAR TABLE
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1620)
The rectangular top is decorated with a garden landscape scene depicting various plants and flowers including bamboo, lingzhi, magnolia and peony trees amongst rocks, with a small bird perched on a rocky outcrop, all reserved on a floral diaper red and gold ground. The sides of the table top and the square-section legs are decorated with leafy scrolling lotus blooms. The openwork apron is decorated with chrysanthemum blooms divided by meandering scrolling tendrils. The legs terminate in hoof feet.
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 88 ½ in. (225.5 cm.) wide, 25 in. (64 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

See a similar table from the Lord Fairhoven Collection, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, UK, illustrated in Chinese Furniture, by Michael Beurdeley, Kodansha International, New York, 1979, p. 107, no. 145. Also in the same publication a similarly decorated table from Musee Guimet is illustrated on p. 112, no. 154.
See also a table illustrated in, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2002, p.125, no. 110.

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