LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY

Compare the example with box-construction top and everted ends, formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 22, illustrated by Curtis Evarts, 'Simplicity and Integrity: The Anatomy of a Masterpiece', JCCFS, Summer 1992, pp.4-12, and in 'The Artistry of Chinese Furniture Joinery: A Manifold Expression', Orientations, January 1993, p.56, fig.11; and by Wang and Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p.108, no.51. See also the table illustrated in a line drawing by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol.1, Hong Kong, 1990, no.B7, p.62, and vol.2, pp.8, 95; and the lute table with scroll spandrels illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce in the Catalogue of the exhibition, The Dr. S.Y.Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp.64-65, no.21