A 'HUANGHUALI' 'KANG' TABLE (KANG ZHUO) 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

the rectangular beaded top above a waisted section, continuing down to the straight apron deeply carved with confronting dragons on the long ends, the short-end aprons with carved archaistic scrolling dragons, flanked by animal-head cabriole legs terminating in claw and ball feet

There is discoloration and some scratches to the table, otherwise in good overall condition.
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Compare a very similar table of slightly smaller proportions, attributed to the early 17th century, illustrated in Robert D. Jacobsen with Nicholas Grindley, Classical Chinese Furniture in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1999, pl. 27.