Details
A RARE HUANGHUALI SIDE TABLE, TIAOZHUO
17TH CENTURY
The rectangular paneled top supported on a straight waist and arched, cusped aprons, the long aprons centered with scrolling tendrils flanked by a pair of lively striding dragons, themselves flanked by another pair of backward-facing dragons, the side aprons also with confronted dragons amid scrolling vines, the beading extending from the apron down the cabriole legs terminating in outward coiling ball feet, the shoulders with elephant mask terminals, the wood an even, dark reddish hue
35 3/4in. (91cm.) high, 68 7/8in. (175cm.) wide, 23¼in. (59cm.) deep
17TH CENTURY
The rectangular paneled top supported on a straight waist and arched, cusped aprons, the long aprons centered with scrolling tendrils flanked by a pair of lively striding dragons, themselves flanked by another pair of backward-facing dragons, the side aprons also with confronted dragons amid scrolling vines, the beading extending from the apron down the cabriole legs terminating in outward coiling ball feet, the shoulders with elephant mask terminals, the wood an even, dark reddish hue
35 3/4in. (91cm.) high, 68 7/8in. (175cm.) wide, 23¼in. (59cm.) deep
Literature
Curtis Evarts, "Recent Acquisitions and Projects of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture", Orientations, January 1992, p. 89, fig. 11
Wang et al., Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, p.110, no. 52
Wang et al., Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, p.110, no. 52