Huanghuali rectangular corner-leg long table, 17th/18th century, Qing period. The single-panel top is set within a wide rectangular frame above a plain apron with a beaded edge, raised on square-section legs joined by humpback stretchers and terminating in hoof feet with beaded edges.

32"h x 62.5"l x 16.2"w (81 x 158 x 41 cm)

Provenance: Christie's New York.

Note: The term banzhuo, or "half-table," is commonly used for tables of this type with shorter tops. Wang Shixiang notes in Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, pp. 54-55, that banzhuo is also sometimes called jiezhuo, or "extension table," reflecting its use to augment a larger square baxianzhuo, or "eight immortals table." Banzhuo is approximately half the size of a baxianzhuo and was mainly used for serving wine and food; Wang further notes that this form was gradually replaced by the circular table during the mid-Qing period. The type is also illustrated by R.H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1971, pl. 66.

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