18TH CENTURY

A huanghuali square corner-leg table of similar design and closely related size is illustrated by Wang Shixiang and C. Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, San Francisco, 1995, pp. 102-103, and was later sold in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 37, where it was dated to the late 17th or early 18th centuries. Another square corner-leg table in huanghuali with the same double-reeded frame, although with four reticulated panels set into the apron, is illustrated by Tian Jiaqing in Classic Chinese Furniture of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 171, no. 73.