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A MAGNIFICENT LARGE HUANGHUALI RECESSED TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
17TH CENTURY
The massive and thick single-plank top is set with everted ends above plain, beaded aprons and cloud-form pierced spandrels. All raised on thick trestle legs of rectangular section, each framing a wide single panel finely carved in openwork with two confronting dragons pursuing the flaming pearl, the whole set into wide tielimu shoe feet.
32 7/8 in (83.5 cm.) high, 108 1/8 in. (274.5 cm.) wide, 20 3/8 in. (51.8 cm.) deep, table top 2 1/4 in. (5.8 cm.) thick
Provenance
Ever Arts, Hong Kong, 1995.
Literature
National Museum of History, Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1999, p. 150.
Exhibited
Splendor of Style: Classical Furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 26 June-5 September 1999.
Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, on loan from 2007-2014.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, on loan from 2014-2019.
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