Lot Essay
For a discussion of bamboo prototypes of hardwood furniture, see Ronald Longsdorf, "Chinese Bamboo Furniture", Orientations, January, 1994, pp. 76-83
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AN UNUSUAL HUANGHUALI SQUARE END TABLE
18TH CENTURY
The round members of the waistless table carved with notches and nodes to simulate bamboo, its square paneled top with double-reeded edge and supported on slender corner legs joined by a plain straight stretcher set with pillar-shaped struts, each leg with two curving spandrels resembling subsidiary stems joining the legs to the stretcher
32¼in. (81.9cm.) high, the top 22¾in. (57.8cm.) square
18TH CENTURY
The round members of the waistless table carved with notches and nodes to simulate bamboo, its square paneled top with double-reeded edge and supported on slender corner legs joined by a plain straight stretcher set with pillar-shaped struts, each leg with two curving spandrels resembling subsidiary stems joining the legs to the stretcher
32¼in. (81.9cm.) high, the top 22¾in. (57.8cm.) square