A Ming-style 'huanghuali' corner-leg table (Tiaozhuo), Late Qing dynasty | 清末 黃花梨雕仿古紋有束腰馬蹄足條桌

A Ming-style 'huanghuali' corner-leg table (Tiaozhuo)

Late Qing dynasty

清末 黃花梨雕仿古紋有束腰馬蹄足條桌

of standard miter, mortise and tenon construction, the two-board floating panel top set into a molded edge frame, supported by four transverse stretchers underneath, above a recessed waist carved with double-fillets and stylized bi-discs in low relief and a shaped, beaded-edge apron carved with archaistic hooks and scrolls, all raised on square-section beaded-edge legs, ending in hoof feet

Height 32 ½ in., 82.6 cm; Width 72 in., 182.9 cm; Depth 17 ¼ in., 45.1 cm