Lot Essay
Comparable examples of recessed-leg tables within this group which have continuous aprons within the legs are illustrated by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, p. 83, pl. 64; by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, p. 86, no. B86; by Grace Wu Bruce, Chinese Classical Furniture, pl. 12; and by Robert Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, p. 204, fig. 118. Each cloud-shaped spandrel is butted to the apron and secured with "loose", or inserted tenons (fig. 7a)