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Lot Essay
Half-round tables are recorded in the Ming carpenter's manuals, Lu Ban Jing, suggesting they were once more common than the few surviving examples would seem to indicate. A demi-lune table and two outline drawings are illustated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. II, p. 118, B125-B127.
Thought to be made in pairs, demi-lune tables were designed to be pushed together to form a single round table, or used separately as console tables. The half-width of the rear legs of the present table suggests this table would have been made as one of a pair. When matched with its mate, the table's half legs would appear to be a single leg.
Thought to be made in pairs, demi-lune tables were designed to be pushed together to form a single round table, or used separately as console tables. The half-width of the rear legs of the present table suggests this table would have been made as one of a pair. When matched with its mate, the table's half legs would appear to be a single leg.