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22 août 2015

A long huanghuali corner-leg table (tiaozhuo), Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century

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A long huanghuali corner-leg table (tiaozhuo), Qing dynasty, 17th-18th century. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the rectangular single board panel secured within a broad molded frame, above a recessed waist, over a beaded and scrolling apron well-carved in relief with lively leafy scrolls, a pair of sinuous confrontingchilong centered by intertwining foliate scrolls, the corners carved with animal masks extending to pendent foliate motifs, above beaded humpback stretchers with archaistic dragon-head terminals joining the four gently curving legs of square section, terminating in outward-scrolled feet, the underside with three transverse stretchers. Height 34 3/4  in., 88.27 cm; Width 69 1/4  in., 175.9 cm; Depth 19 1/2  in., 49.5 cm

Property from the Zihanxuan collection

ProvenanceAcquired from a private family collection in Canada in the 1980s.

BibliographyPhilip Mak, "Chinese Wood Tables," Arts of Asia, vol. 41, no. 2, March-April 2011, pp. 91-106, pl. 22.

NoteThis very rare table is notable for the sophistication and complexity of the relief carving. The rhythmic scrolling lines of the apron and bold strength of the animal headed stretchers are rarely seen on tables of this size. There are square tables with barbed aprons and arched stretchers but the present piece relates most closely to the decorative carving found on a group of stools. A pair from this group, from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, was sold at Christie's New York, 19th September 1996, lot 104 and again recently at Quinn & Farmer Auctions, Charlottesville, Virginia, 18th April 2015, lot 52. Another stool from this group, from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, sold in these rooms, 10th October 1987, lot 409. 

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015

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