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Lot Essay
Compare very similar kang tables in the Shanghai Museum,
illustrated in the Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery
pamphlet, p. 8, in R.D. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999,
pp. 94-95, no. 27, and in Nicholas Grindley's June 1998 Catalogue, no. 11.
A kang table with animal masks and claw feet, and an unusual convex waist was sold at Christie's, New York, The Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection of Fine Classical Chinese Furniture, 18 September, 1997, lot 31.
See, also, a kang table of zitan with similar animal masks and ball and claw feet, sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September, 1996, lot 97.
illustrated in the Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery
pamphlet, p. 8, in R.D. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999,
pp. 94-95, no. 27, and in Nicholas Grindley's June 1998 Catalogue, no. 11.
A kang table with animal masks and claw feet, and an unusual convex waist was sold at Christie's, New York, The Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Piccus Collection of Fine Classical Chinese Furniture, 18 September, 1997, lot 31.
See, also, a kang table of zitan with similar animal masks and ball and claw feet, sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September, 1996, lot 97.