17TH/18TH CENTURY

細節

A Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Huanghuali Demountable Wine Table, Jiuzhuo
17th/18th Century
The two-panel top decorated with a mother-of-pearl inlaid design of flowering magnolia, prunus and tree peony amidst butterflies and set in a frame with further fruiting and flowering branches, supported on round-section legs joined by a plain apron and apron-head spandrels, the front and back legs joined by double stretchers to form trestles demountable from the top
32½in. (81.3cm.) high, 39in. (99.1cm.) wide, 16in. (40.6cm.) deep

拍品專文

While mother-of-pearl inlay is often seen in lacquered furniture, it was less commonly used for inlaid decoration on hardwood furniture. For examples of this kind of decoration see the zitan footrest and the door of a square-corner cabinet illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 142, figs. 4.36a and b. Compare the recessed-leg painting table with inset lacquered top with inlaid mother-of-pearl floral decoration illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1970, pp. 186 and 256, no. 90.