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A Large Huanghuali Painting Table, HUA ZHUO LATE MING DYNASTY |

Sold for HK$22,880,000 at Sotheby's on Oct 7, 2015.

Long rectangular wooden table with a dark brown top, rounded legs, and curved braces.

Lot description

of high rectangular form, the top of standard mitre, mortise and tenon construction with a flush and beautifully grained single-board, tongue-and-grooved into the frame, the floating panel supported by four dovetailed stretchers underneath, the edge of the frame gently rounded, the aprons moulded to appear as two rounded members with small rounded end pieces, the aprons made of one piece of wood and dovetailed into the rounded legs to join with each other, the rounded and humpback-shaped stretchers similarly dovetailed into the legs and probably hidden tennoned to the underside of the aprons, the round legs double tennoned into the frame top, S-shaped braces mortised and tennoned to the legs and half-lapped and woodpinned to the braces at the ends beneath the table

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