Lot 127TP,Y
A huanghuali waisted corner-leg side table, tiaozhuo
17th/18th century
1 December 2020, 15:30 HKT
Hong Kong, AdmiraltyHK$800,000 - HK$1,200,000
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A huanghuali waisted corner-leg side table, tiaozhuo
17th/18th century
Of rectangular form with a single floating panel set in a mitred frame of mortise and tenon construction with moulded edges, supported underneath by three transverse stretchers, above a short recessed waist surmounting a plain beaded apron, supported on four beaded legs of slender square section terminating in hoof feet and joined by humpback stretchers. 137cm (54in) wide x 46cm (18 1/8in) deep x 85cm (33 1/2in) high.
Of rectangular form with a single floating panel set in a mitred frame of mortise and tenon construction with moulded edges, supported underneath by three transverse stretchers, above a short recessed waist surmounting a plain beaded apron, supported on four beaded legs of slender square section terminating in hoof feet and joined by humpback stretchers. 137cm (54in) wide x 46cm (18 1/8in) deep x 85cm (33 1/2in) high.
Footnotes
十七/十八世紀 黃花梨束腰馬蹄足長條桌
Provenance:
MD Flacks Limited, New York
Ever Arts Gallery, Hong Kong
A Hong Kong private collection
來源：
馬科斯‧弗拉克斯，紐約
恆藝館，香港
香港私人收藏
Well proportioned and elegantly designed, the current table captures the essence of literati taste which has been admired since the late Ming dynasty. Its simplicity, fluidity and well-balanced design, made possible by sophisticated joinery, allows for a minimal use of material and elegant proportions.
A related huanghuali table, 17th century, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by C.Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, no.48; another huanghuali table, 17th century, is illustrated by Chen Zengbi, Central Academy of Arts and Crafts: Illustrations of collections , vol.2, Beijing, 1994, no.35. See another similar but larger example, early Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong, 2002, no.97, p.114.
A very similar huanghuali table, 17th century, was sold at Bonhams New York, 16 September 2016, lot 6011; and another similar huanghuali table, 17th/18th century, was sold at Bonhams London, 11 May 2017, lot 329.
條桌黃花梨製，桌面打槽平鑲獨板面心，桌面狹長，下設三根穿帶支撐，窄束腰，細牙條。四腿間安羅鍋枨。供肩直腿，內翻馬蹄足。整體造像屬明式風格，惟四足內翻成馬蹄，意趣較晚，具清代風格。
此條桌比例協調，造型優雅，乃自晚明以來最受推崇之經典樣式之一，後流行於歷代各朝。木匠通過精妙的榫卯拼接，結合束腰型桌形結構設計，以最簡潔的設計呈現出最優雅的線條。
倫敦維多利亞與艾伯特博物館藏一件十七世紀黃花梨條桌，著錄於Craig Clunas，《Chinese Furniture》，倫敦， 1988年，編號48；另見現藏清華大學美術學院一例十七世紀黃花梨條桌，著錄於《中央工藝美術學院珍品圖錄：第二輯：明式家具》，北京，1994年，編號35。另見北京故宮博物院清宮舊藏一例，斷代為清早期，著錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：明清家具（上）》，香港，2002年，編號97，頁114。
拍賣會曾出售類似之例，見紐約邦瀚斯曾出售十七世紀一例，2016年9月16日，拍品6011；另見倫敦邦瀚斯曾售出相似一例，2017年5月11日，拍品 329。