Lot Essay
There are few published examples of comparable tables. An example from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture was sold in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 75. Others are illustrated by Gustav Ecke in Chinese Domestic Furniture, pl. 46, no. 36; and by Wang Shixiang in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, p. 96, fig. B81. Yet another, in the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, is illustrated by Ellsworth, Grindley and Christy, op. cit., p. 164, fig. 61.