A MAGNIFICENT LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
A MAGNIFICENT LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
A MAGNIFICENT LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
3 更多
A MAGNIFICENT LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
6 更多
Prospective purchasers are advised that several co… 显示更多
A MAGNIFICENT LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN

17TH CENTURY

细节
32 7/8 in (83.5 cm.) high, 108 1/8 in. (274.5 cm.) wide, 20 3/8 in. (51.8 cm.) deep, table top 2 ¼ in. (5.8 cm.) thick
来源
Ever Arts, Hong Kong, 1995.
出版
National Museum of History, Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p. 150.
展览
Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 26 June-5 September 1999.
Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, on loan from 2007-2014.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, on loan from 2014-2019.
注意事项
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory, tortoiseshell and crocodile. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.
更多详情
Please note these lots incorporate material from endangered species which could result in export restrictions. You should check the relevant customs laws and regulations before bidding on this lot if you plan to import the lot into another country. Please refer to Christie’s Conditions of Sale.

荣誉呈献

Pola Antebi (安蓓蕾)
Pola Antebi (安蓓蕾) Deputy Chairman, Asia Pacific, International Director

拍品专文

It is very rare to find a single-top qiaotou’an of this size. The thickness of the present table top (5.8 cm.) is evidence that the furniture maker had the economic resources and access to precious materials of the highest quality. Tables of the present type tend to feature long, single-plank tops, thick members and aprons with integral spandrels which are joined by dovetail-housing to the trestle legs, providing added structural support. Altar tables of this type are known as qiaotou’an as they are distinguished by their elegant everted table-top ends and openwork panels joining the legs. The late Ming style-maker Wen Zhenheng also termed it bizhuo, or ‘wall table,’ as they were often found placed against a wall in the main hall of a formal setting, to display works of art or to hold offerings, as can be seen in an illustration of the popular Ming dynasty novel Jin Ping Mei (The Golden Lotus) (fig. 1).

There appears to be two types of recessed trestle-leg tables. The first type has everted feet and the second type, such as the current table, has straight legs set into shoe feet. Notable huanghuali trestle-leg tables can be seen in several public collections, including a slightly smaller example (H85.3 cm. x W226.5 cm. x D42.5 cm.) in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, illustrated by Robert D. Jacobson and Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, p. 127, no. 42 (fig. 2).

A huanghuali painting table with openwork kui-dragon panels set into shoe feet similar in style to the present table (H81.5 cm. x W244 cm. x D46 cm.), is in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I.), Hong Kong, 2002, p. 165 (fig. 3).

A massive single-plank top huanghuali recessed trestle-leg qiaotou’an of similar size, previously from the Estate of Fredric Mueller, was sold at Christie’s New York, 27 November 1991, lot 235 and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2004. Compare the present table also to a single-plank top qiaotou’an with carved chilong panels (H95.9 cm. x W309.9 cm. x D47.6 cm.) sold at Christie’s New York, 24-25 March 2022, lot 1016 (fig. 4).

更多来自 卓木沁香:曾氏收藏中国古典家具

查看全部
查看全部