A large 'jumu' recessed-leg painting table (Huazhuo), Qing dynasty, 18th century | 清十八世紀 櫸木夾頭榫畫桌

A large 'jumu' recessed-leg painting table (Huazhuo)

Qing dynasty, 18th century

清十八世紀 櫸木夾頭榫畫桌

the top of standard miter, mortise and tenon construction, enclosing a three-board floating panel supported underneath by three dovetailed transverse stretchers, the edge of the frame gently molded, the slightly splayed cylindrical legs double tenoned into the top and cut to house the plain spandreled apron, each pair of legs joined on the short side by two oval-sectioned stretchers, plexiglass sheet (2)

Height 31 ⅞ in., 81 cm; Width 77 ¼ in., 196.2 cm; Depth 38 ¼ in., 97.2 cm