清十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨翹頭案

the top a two-board floating panel tongue-and-grooved to the frame with shaped everted flanges, the edge of the frame molded inward terminating with a beaded edge, over a beaded-edge wide apron with a central arch suspending a single fuschia-like bloom, inset on one side with a pair of narrow drawers, the beaded cloud-scroll spandrels set on gently bidirectional played legs of circular section, joined by oval section double stretchers on each short side, the underside with three transverse stretchers 

（傳）承德避暑山莊
（傳）湯玉麟
John F. Kullgren伉儷收藏，洛杉磯，加州
Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1958年12月4至5日，編號403

洛杉磯郡藝術博物館，洛杉磯，加州，1942至1948年

Gregor Norman Wilcox，，《The Magazine Antiques》，1943年4月，頁167-170
重印於《Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society》，1991年秋，頁61

The drawers are later additions. The everted flanges had been replaced. The short aprons are also most likely later replacements and have applied molding. One leg broken and with spliced repair. The table has other minor repairs and restoration. The surface has lightened and dried as a result of prolonged sun exposure.
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The wide scrolling and cusped apron on the present long table is unusual. The bold carving and emphatic curve of the apron and spandrels suggest an early Qing dynasty reference to a Ming dynasty or earlier prototype. Archaic references were popular during the early Qing dynasty but the present form does not merely imitate, it is distinctive in its interpretation of an earlier style. A related table with a deep apron is in The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City.