Lot Essay
Compare the present table to a huanghuali side table, also with an integral shelf, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Biddle, illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, p. 173, no. 72. See also a similar small recessed-leg side table from the Marie Theresa L. Virata Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 16 March 2017, lot 668.