18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The single-panel top is fitted with everted ends above the plain apron and spandrels carved with scrolling chilong. The whole is raised on thick trestle-legs joined by an openwork panel carved with chilong above rockwork.
36 ¾ in. (93.3 cm.) high, 77 ½ in. (196.9 cm.) wide, 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) deep

Provenance

Eastern Pacific Co., (Hei Hung Lu), Hong Kong, 1990.
The Irving Collection, New York, no. 1019.

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Lot Essay

Tables of this form, also known as altar tables, were often found placed against a wall to display works of art or to hold offerings. The tables are distinguished by their elegant everted ends and openwork panels joining the legs. A similarly proportioned huanghuali trestle-leg table, also with solid panel top and openwork 'chilong' panels, is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, illustrated in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin: Winter 1963: Chinese Furniture, Volume LVIII, Number 276, p. 71, pl. 15.

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