18TH CENTURY

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A HUANGHUALI WAISTED SQUARE CORNER-LEG TABLE
18TH CENTURY
The paneled-top is set within the square frame above a narrow waist and shaped aprons carved with chilong and scrollwork. The beaded, square-form legs terminate in hoof feet and are joined by humpback stretchers.
34 1/8 in. (86.7 cm.) high, 37 ¼ in. (94.6 cm.) square

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Lot Essay

A similar table, the apron also carved with scrolling dragons, is illustrated by S. Handler, Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture, Berkeley and Toronto, 2005, p. 167. See, also, M. Beurdeley, Chinese Furniture, Tokyo and New York, 1979, pl. 126, for a similar example dated to the late Ming period, in the Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes Collection, Paris.

A huanghuali square table of similar proportions, carved on the aprons with dragons and archaistic scroll, is in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 54 - Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, p. 98, no. 86, where it is dated to the Qianlong period. A huanghuali square table of similar proportions, carved with chilong on the aprons, was sold at Christie's New York, 25 September 2020, lot 1646.

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