A Huanghuali Recessed-Leg Painting Table, Hua'an

For a table of this type, see the example from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 75; and another, from the Jingguantang Collection, also sold in these rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 9. Other examples are illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, New York, 1971, pp. 155 and 249, no. 51 and by Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, pl. 46, no. 36.