A TWO-DRAWER HUANGHUALI WRITING TABLE, SHUAN

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A TWO-DRAWER HUANGHUALI WRITING TABLE, SHUAN
LATE MING DYNASTY

The framed single plank top supported on recessed, slightly splayed round legs and joined by stretchers supporting a row of two drawers separated by a central low strut, plain shaped spandrels flanking the front legs below the top and stepped spandrels below the drawers, original baitong pulls, latches and escutcheons, the legs reduced and enclosed in metal shoes--31in. (78.8cm.) high, 50¼in. (128cm.) wide, 21¾in. (55.4cm.) deep

Lot Essay

See the two-drawer table with recessed legs shown in a line drawing illustrated by Yang Yao, Mingshi Jiaju Yanju (Research on Ming Furniture), published in Zhongguo Jianzhu Gongyue Chubanshe, Beijing, 1986, p. 33, ill. 19, no. 5, and the three-drawer recessed-leg writing table from the Shi family collection, Dong ting, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, Hong Kong, 1990, figs. B123, M117