A RARE HUANGHUALI WAISTLESS PAINTING TABLE, HUA'AN
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
明末/清初 黃花梨畫案

17TH CENTURY

細節
黃花梨木製。面攢框鑲二板。面下直牙條。圓腿,兩側腿間裝雙橫棖。畫案底留原漆。

案面寬大,應作畫案用,適宜放置橫幅或直向畫紙。1999年蘇州出版濮安國著《明清蘇式傢具》中刊載了一幅康熙年間版畫(圖一),顯示傳統書齋擺設同款畫案的情景。南京博物院藏一件相近的畫案,刻字為明萬曆蘇州舊物,見1990年香港出版王世襄著《明式家具研究》(英文版),編號B113。

畫案南方稱天然几,明代《長物志》卷六記載當時的規格:「以文木如花梨鐵梨香楠等木為之,第以濶大為貴,長不可過八尺,厚不可過五寸,飛角處不可太尖,須平圓,乃古式,照倭幾下有拖尾者更竒,不可用四足如書桌式……不可雕龍鳳花草諸俗式,近時所製狹而長者最可厭……」

此品源自倫敦Nicholas Grindley,1992年12月1-F3 Lally & Co。著錄於2002年香港出版S. Leece、M. Freeman合著《China Style》,57-58頁。
來源
Nicholas Grindley.
Sotheby's, New York, 1-2 December 1992, lot 640.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.
出版
Sharon Leece and Michael Freeman, China Style, Hong Kong, 2002, pp. 57-8.

榮譽呈獻

Christopher Engle
Christopher Engle

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The present table is an exceptional example of its type, using thick, substantial sections of huanghuali for the top, frame, aprons and legs. The form, with its simple lines, rounded legs, and pairs of stretchers, is also one of the most successful and recognizeable forms found in classical Chinese furniture construction. The depth of the present table confirms its use as a painting table, as smaller, narrower tables would not possess the dimensions required for painting in either a horizontal or vertical format. For a detail of a similar painting table, and how it would have been used in the classic scholarly interior, see a Kangxi-period woodblock print illustrated by Pu An'guo in Ming Qing Su Shi Jia Ju, Suzhou, 1999, p. 65. (Fig.1).

Wang Shixiang also illustrates a similar painting table in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 111, no. B113, where he notes the table has an inscription dating it to the Wanli period. The author continues to discuss this form and type ibid., vol. I, pp. 69-71.

Several other examples of this elegant form have been published. See Robert H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, New York, 1996, pp. 164-65, no. 61; Sarah Handler, Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, London, 2001, p. 206, no. 13.4; and Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and the Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, pp. 66-7, no. 22. See, also, the closely related, though larger, huanghuali painting table, also dated to the 17th century, sold by Christie's, New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1746.

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