A VERY RARE SUPERBLY-CARVED ZITAN SQUARE TABLE

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A VERY RARE SUPERBLY-CARVED ZITAN SQUARE TABLE
QIANLONG

The square detachable table top with an openwork border of clouds, supported on a turned and carved pedestal with four brackets to support the top above four larger brackets pierced and carved with bats among clouds, the baluster-shaped pedestal carved with bands of lotus petals, beading and archaistic motifs, all raised on a waisted square stand carved with a frieze of bats among clouds, lotus petals and scrolling foliage, the corners resting on four compressed legs (some restoration) 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 32 3/4 (80 x 80 x 83cm.)

Lot Essay

No other table of the this exact design appears to be published. The Emperor Yongzheng ordered a similar table with this untypically Chinese design of a single pedestal with openwork bracket supports in his eighth year. Cf. Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol.11, Bamboo, Wood, Ivory, p.58 and col.pl.180, from the Palace Museum, Beijing. Like the present example, it has an openwork frieze below the edge of the top. The design of openwork brackets supporting a central pedestal also recalls porcelain hat stands in the Qing Dynasty

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