A MASSIVE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG ALTAR TABLE, QIAOTOUAN
PROPERTY OF A SOUTH FLORIDA COLLECTOR
清中期 黃花梨雕雲龍紋翹頭案

18TH CENTURY

細節
黃花梨木製。案面整板造成,兩端如卷軸狀翹起。牙條邊沿起陽線,牙頭雕成螭龍紋,龍身卷纏若卷草紋。方腿打窪面,腿間嵌檔板鏤雕雙龍戲珠紋,上托如意雲紋。足下承托泥。

翹頭案一般靠牆陳設,或作放置神壇之用,本大型案用料講究,面板厚達2吋,製作費用高昂,應放於重要的位置。北京故宮儲秀宮西梢間西牆陳設一張黑漆嵌螺鈿雲龍紋翹頭案,中間放帶鐘錶的座鏡,兩側放太平有象一對,顯出富麗堂皇的氣派,該處曾為慈禧太后寢室,載於2006年北京出版《故宮博物院藏明清宮廷家具大觀‧下》,圖版800號。

北京故宮博物院珍藏另一件明代黃花梨長條案,其大型、紋飾與本器相若,尤其是牙頭同樣浮雕螭龍紋,見前書上冊,圖287。

此品1982年12月2日於紐約佳士得拍賣,拍品563號;後為Fredric Mueller收藏,1991年
11月27日於紐約佳士得拍賣,拍品235號。
來源
Christie's, New York, 2 December 1982, lot 563.
Property From the Estate of Fredric Mueller; Christie's, New York, 27 November 1991, lot 235.

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Christopher Engle
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The massive size of the present table suggests that it would have held a place of great importance at the centre of an altar, or against the wall of a grand hall. See, for example, the placement of a related recessed trestle-leg table, although embellished in mother-of-pearl on a lacquer ground, in the Palace of Gathering Excellence, illustrated in Ming Qing Gong Ting Jia Ju Da Guan, Part II, Beijing, 2006, p. 698, pl. 800. One distinct feature of the present table is the thickness of the top plank, which measures approximately two inches thick, and suggests that the table would have been immensely costly even at the time of manufacture.

A similar huanghuali table of related size (357 cm.) and style, although dated to the Ming dynasty, is illustrated ibid., vol. I, pp. 250-51, no. 287. Of particular note is the similarity of the shape of the spandrels and deep style of carving, which also features dragons amidst tendrils.

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