Lot 63. A huanghuali kang table, kangzhuo, Late Ming Dynasty; 30.2cm x 52cm x 52cm. Sold for €14,080. Photo Bonhams.

With a two-panel floating top set flush within a square mitred, mortice and tenon frame with beaded edge, above a plain narrow waist and aprons of arched, curvilinear form with strongly moulded beaded edges continuing down the elegantly curved cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet carved with a stylised foliate leaf to the outside edge, the underside with two transverse stretchers.

Provenance: Formerly in a German collection formed in China between 1912 and 1938.

Note: See also a similar small kang table, published by Curtis Evans, A Leisurely Pursuit. Splendid Hardwood Antiquities from the Liang Yi Collection, Hong Kong, 2000, no.30. See also a kang table of this classic waisted type, see, for example, sold in Christie's, New York, 18 March 2015, lot 105.

Bonhams - Cornette de Saint Cyr. CHINESE ART FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION, Paris, 26 October 2023