A WOOD DINING TABLE (SOBAN)

CHOSON PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A WOOD DINING TABLE (SOBAN)
choson period (19th century)
The circular lobed surface with raised angled edge, with four faceted legs formed as inverted yo'i-du leaving shaped openings, each engraved with wanja roundels
15 7/8in. (40.2cm.) diameter; 8½in. (21.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other tables see Byung-Ok Chun, Decorative Designs in the Houses of Chosun Dynasty Period (Seoul: Po Chin Chai, Inc., 1988), no. 212, p. 176; Catalogue of Ewha Womans University Museum (Seoul: Ewha Womans University Museum, 1986), no. 3673, p. 501.