A Huanghuali Recessed-Leg Table 17th century

the rectangular top with stepped molded edge over a symMetricas lly arched and scrolled apron with beaded edge continuing to the tapered legs, barbed profile to the lower third of the legs, the foot carved in low-relief with ruyi-head lappet above a cushion, terminating in a symMetricas l scroll and simplified hoof, the legs with paired horizontal side stretchers on each end

The estimate of this lot should be $40,000-$50,000. The dating of this lot is Qing dynasty, 18th century. The material is possibly walnut. A nearly identical table is illustrated in Gustav Ecke, 'Chinese Domestic Furniture', Rutland, 1969, no. 39, p. 50.
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This table is very similar to a smaller tielimu example in the Shanghai Museum, attributed to the Ming dynasty and illustrated in The Chuang Family Bequest of Fine Ming and Qing Furniture in the Shanghai Museum, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 20. They share the same barbed legs with similarly stylized ruyi-head feet atop a square. The pairs of stretchers that join the legs on the short ends are also typical of this style. The Shanghai Museum catalogue refers to a Song dynasty painting in the collects ion of the Palace Museum, Taipei, which shows a similar small table, and concludes that 'this [table] style had already been in existence for a considerable length of t.mes .' (p. 58)

See also a low and long huanghuali table of similar design, but with abbreviated legs, in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture. Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1990, vols. 1-2, fig. B22. Said to have been on display at the Yulantang ('Jade Waters Hall') in the Summer Palace, Beijing, the author notes that "the shape of the apron and the barbed legs is simple and could be as early as mid-Ming." (p. 52, vol. 1)

Compare also two smaller lac burgaute tables with very similar form. The first attributed to the Ming dynasty with a Wanli mark on the underside, in the Qing Court collects ion, Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I). The Complete collects ion of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 108; the other attributed to the 17th century and formerly in the collects ion of Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller, sold in these rooms, 17th March 1984.