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A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI PLANK-TOP TABLE, QIAOTOU ZHUO

Lot 1108
29.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Sold
HKD 14 290 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1331431
Lot 1108 | A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI PLANK-TOP TABLE, QIAOTOU ZHUO
Estimate value
HKD 2 500 000 – 4 500 000
A VERY RARE HUANGHUALI PLANK-TOP TABLE, QIAOTOU ZHUO
LATE MING DYNASTY
Of substantial material, the single plank top of well-figured wood has small inset shaped everted flanges which return down the outside edges of the plank as a bread board end piece. The edge of the plank is completely flat. The massive legs into which the aprons are set flush in a mortise and tenon pyramid join are mortised and tenoned to the top and end in strong low hoof feet. Metal nails applied to the underside of the plain straight aprons further secured them to the top. There are square section S-braces mortised and tenoned to the legs in a hook and pegged join and pinned to the underside of the plank top.
78 3/16 in. (198.6 cm.) wide, 18 1/16 in. (45.8 cm.) deep, 35 in. (88.9 cm.) high




Provenance

Gangolf Geis Collection, Hong Kong, til 2003
Sold at Christie’s New York, The Gangolf Geis Collection of Fine Chinese Furniture, 18 September 2003, lot 44
The MQJ Collection, Hong Kong



Literature

Grace Wu Bruce, ‘Two Decades of Ming Furniture Part IV: Zhuo (Tables)’, Forbidden City, Beijing, November 2008, issue 166, p. 135
Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, p. 49
Grace Wu, The Best of the Best- The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture- vol. 1, Beijing, 2017, pp. 142-147
Grace Wu, Three Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2024, p. 54



Exhibited

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Best of the Best- The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture, 29 September-2 October 2017
Christie’s Hong Kong, A Special Exhibition of the MQJ Collection, 11-15 October 2024
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Tables
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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