A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE
A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE
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A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE

QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

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A RARE HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG SIDE TABLE
QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The rectangular top is flanked by graceful everted ends, and is carved with elegant beadwork along the outside edges, above the shaped aprons and cloud-form spandrels. The splayed, slightly tapering legs are of rectangular section and are carved with a raised bead running down the centre of each outside face, terminating in ruyi-form hoof feet raised on stepped chucks.
32 1/2 in. (83 cm.) high, 46 1/2 in. (118 cm.) wide, 15 in. (38.1 cm.) deep
出版
R. Hatfield Ellsworth, N. Grindley and Anita Christy, Chinese Furniture: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, vol. 1, New York, 1996, pp. 136-137, no. 47
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Stephenie Tsoi
Stephenie Tsoi

拍品专文

The form of the present table, with its shaped aprons, elaborate spandrels, mid-leg ‘barbed leaf’ carving and ruyi-form feet is a particularly archaic one, derived from the open-panel box construction developed as early as the Tang dynasty. Several small wine tables with such features can be seen in the Song-dynasty painting album, Tianlai ge jiucang Songren huace, part of which is illustrated in Wang Shixiang’s Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 55, fig. 2.20. A few extant examples of this form are known, including one at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, illustrated by Roger Ward and Patricia Fidler in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 342, and another example in tielimu illustrated by Wang Shixiang in ibid., vol. II, p. 78, no. B36, although both lack the everted ends. For a slightly larger example with everted ends and very similar mid-leg ‘barbed-leaf’ carvings in the Royal Ontario Museum, see R. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New Fairfield, CT, 1970, no. 53.

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