4. Huanghuali Recessed-leg Table (pingtouan)
Late Ming - Early Qing dynasty, 17th century
Height: 81.3cm
Width: 137.2cm
Depth: 54.6cm
An inset leg bridle joint huanghuali table, the rectangular top of standard mitred, mortice and tenon construction with flush mounted two plank tongue and grooved floating panel top with exposed tenons in the short rails and five dovetailed transverse stretchers tenoned into the long rails. The edge of the mitred frame has a softly moulded section with a moulded bottom edge. The splayed round legs are double morticed into the long members of the frame and are cut to fit over the mitred shaped spandrels of the apron, the long members of which are dovetail wedged into the top rails. Between the legs at each end are two oval section rails tenoned into the legs which are also splayed to the end elevation.
Provenance:
Nicholas Grindley, London, 1997.
Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montréal (2002 - 2019).
Published:
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, plate 174.
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