Live Auction 18823Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
Lot 1654 THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION

A HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN

18TH-19TH CENTURY

Closed25 September 2020

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A HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The single-panel top is fitted with everted ends above the plain apron and spandrels carved with scrolling chilong. The whole is raised on thick trestle-legs joined by an openwork panel carved with chilong above rockwork.
36 ¾ in. (93.3 cm.) high, 77 ½ in. (196.9 cm.) wide, 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) deep

Eastern Pacific Co., (Hei Hung Lu), Hong Kong, 1990.
The Irving Collection, New York, no. 1019.

Specialist note


Tables of this form, also known as altar tables, were often found placed against a wall to display works of art or to hold offerings. The tables are distinguished by their elegant everted ends and openwork panels joining the legs. A similarly proportioned huanghuali trestle-leg table, also with solid panel top and openwork 'chilong' panels, is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, illustrated in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin: Winter 1963: Chinese Furniture, Volume LVIII, Number 276, p. 71, pl. 15.