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Lot Essay
This table is a variant of the standard long recessed leg table that invariably is constructed using round-section legs and most of the tables of this type with square-section legs with convex outer faces have cloud scroll rather than plain spandrels. For examples of these see one illustrated by Robert Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley in Classical Chinese Furniture in Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, no. 41 and Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, vol.1, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2002, no. 109.
Tables of this length, 242 cm, usually have a more elaborate design with everted ends to the top and inset legs with carved aprons and carved panels between the legs such as the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1996.339) or the example in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, op cit, no. 42.
A pingtou'an of similarly simple design but with round-section legs and a single tieli panel is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Palace Museum Collection: A Treasury of Ming & Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture, vol. 1, Beijing, 2007, fig. 286, which was originally placed in the Shoukang Palace, a residence for Empress Dowagers or Consort Dowagers during the Qing dynasty.
Tables of this length, 242 cm, usually have a more elaborate design with everted ends to the top and inset legs with carved aprons and carved panels between the legs such as the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1996.339) or the example in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, op cit, no. 42.
A pingtou'an of similarly simple design but with round-section legs and a single tieli panel is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Palace Museum Collection: A Treasury of Ming & Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture, vol. 1, Beijing, 2007, fig. 286, which was originally placed in the Shoukang Palace, a residence for Empress Dowagers or Consort Dowagers during the Qing dynasty.