17TH-18TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The single-panel top is set in a rectangular frame above the finely beaded apron and beaded spandrels pierced with ruyi-heads. The whole is raised on trestle legs fitted with openwork panels carved with dragons amidst lingzhi stems and set into shoe feet.
32 ½ in (81.9 cm.) high, 71 ¼ in. (181 cm.) wide, 16 ¼ in. (41.3 cm.) deep

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co., New York.
Robert and William Drummond, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Acquired from the above in 1974.

Literature

W. M. Drummond, “Chinese Furniture: The Sackler Collections: Early Scholarship, 1969,” Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Summer 1993, pp. 63, pls. 17-18.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A huanghuali trestle-leg table, also with pierced ruyi spandrels and of similar proportions, but with a more restrained ruyi openwork panel, was sold at Christie's New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part I: Masterworks: Including Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, 17 March 2015, lot 48. Another huanghuali trestle-leg table with similar spandrels and elaborate openwork panels joining the legs is illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, vol. I, New York, 1996, pp. 166-7, no. 62.

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