A huanghuali small rectangular kang table, Chinese, late Ming dynasty, 17th century.

A huanghuali small rectangular kang table (possibly made for a luohan chuang or a bed). The typical mitred, mortice and tenon frame top has a two-board flush floating panel with two transverse stretchers hidden tenoned into the long rails of the frame and exposed tenons in the short rails. There are small patches to two outside edges of the top, the lower edge of which has a crisp shoulder moulding. The waisted apron, made in one piece to the long sides and two to the short sides, has a scrolling apron, one short side of which has been repaired on the interior surface, which is mitred and half lapped into the top of the leg which is in turn double lock mortice and tenoned into the underside of the top. The strongly moulded edge of the apron continues down the S-shaped leg which terminates in a whorl foot with a leaf foliate motif to the outside edge.

Late Ming dynasty, 17th century. 

Provenance:

Nicholas Grindley, London (0896-02), 1996

Ian and Susan Wilson collection, San Francisco

On loan to the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln (2003 – 2018)

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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