Lot Essay
For a similar table of this type, see the example sold in these rooms, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 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 in R.H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, pp. 155 and 249, no. 51, and by G. Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, pl. 46. no. 36.