A HUANGHUALI WAISTLESS CORNER LEG LUTE TABLE, QINZHUO

17TH CENTURY

Details

A HUANGHUALI WAISTLESS CORNER LEG LUTE TABLE, QINZHUO
17th Century
Of simianping ("four sides flush"), spare and elegant form, the single-board floating panel top with an additional board below forming a hollow center section mounted with coiled bronze springs, to produce a resonance, the spandrels of double C-scroll form, the legs set at the corners at flush right angles to the top and ending in beautifully drawn hoof feet
32 1/3in. (82cm.) high, 46¾in. (118.6cm.) long, 21in. (53cm.) deep

Literature

Elspeth Moncrieff, 'Chinese Hardwood Furniture', The Antique Collector, August 1989, p. 40.
Grace Wu Bruce, Dreams of Chu Tan Chamber and Romance with Huanghuali Wood: The Dr. S Y Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1991, cat. 21, pp. 64-65.

Exhibited

Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 20 September-24 November, 1991.
Denver Art Museum, 1996-1999.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 18-26 November, 1999.

Further details

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Lot Essay

Compare a very similar lute table in the collection of Mrs. Chen Mengjia, illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, London, 1986, pl. 118, and also in Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, vol. 1, p. 74, vol. II, B132, p. 120. For another similar lute table see R.D. Jacobsen, Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1990, pp. 104-105, cat. no. 32.

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