Sale 2553
New York
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22 - 23 March 2012
Price realised
USD 146,500
Estimate
A HUANGHUALI WAISTED CORNER-LEG SIDE TABLE, BANZHUO 17TH CENTURY With two-panel top set within the wide rectangular frame with thumb-grooved edge above a narrow waist and plain, beaded aprons carved at the corners with billowing clouds continuing onto the thick, beaded legs of square section joined by humpback stretchers and terminating in hoof feet 33 9/16 in. (85.2 cm.) high, 40¾ in. (103.5 cm.) wide, 20 1/8 in. (51.2 cm.) deep
Provenance
R.H. Ellsworth Ltd., New York, 1982. Private collection, England, 1982-2010.
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Exhibited
Nicholas Grindley, October 2010, no. 11.
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