Lot Essay
Compare the huanghuali example from the sale of Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 29. See, also, the huanghuali table with a shelf in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Bidddle illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 173, no. 72.