Lot 2014
2014
A DALI MARBLE-INSET HUANGHUALI TABLE SCREEN, XIAOZUOPINGFENG
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
A DALI MARBLE-INSET HUANGHUALI TABLE SCREEN, XIAOZUOPINGFENG

17TH/18TH CENTURY

Details
A DALI MARBLE-INSET HUANGHUALI TABLE SCREEN, XIAOZUOPINGFENG
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The rectangular huanghuali frame enclosing the attractively variegated dali marble panel, above a high, reticulated waist and shaped, beaded apron, the whole raised on narrow shoe feet flanked by shaped, standing spandrels
19¼ in. (48.9 cm.) high, 17 in. (43.2 cm.) wide, 5¾ in (14.8 cm.) deep
Provenance
Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 1994.

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar stone-inset huanghuali table screen, dated to the 16th or 17th century, illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce in 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. 65-6, no. 65, where the author notes that screens of this type served decorative, rather than functional purposes, and would have been placed on top of tables. For a further discussion of the use of decorative stone in huanghuali furniture, see the footnote to lot 2001.

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