LOT 307 A TIANQI LACQUER RECTANGULAR LOW TABLE, KANGZHUO 17th/18th ...
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A TIANQI LACQUER RECTANGULAR LOW TABLE, KANGZHUO17th/18th century The rectangular top engraved and painted in colours with a petal-lobed oval panel enclosing exotic long-tailed birds perched on a flowering plum tree, all reserved on a floral-diaper black and brown ground, the corners with chrysanthemum sprays, all above a pierced frieze and supported on four very short curling legs with a shaped apron decorated with blossoming branches, the underside lacquered black. 54.6cm (21 1/2in) wide x 34cm (13 1/2in) deep x 14.5cm (5 3/4in) high. 十七/十八世紀 填漆花鳥紋炕桌 Provenance: London, 11 June 2003, lot 83. 來源:倫敦邦瀚斯,2003年6月11日,拍品編號83 Kang tables played an important role in northern Chinese society, where they were typically placed atop heated platforms to serve as desks, dining and tea tables; they also held books, vases of flowers, incense burners and other objects. Smaller low tables were also placed on canopy beds, daybeds and couch-beds; see S.Handler, The Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture , Hong Kong, 2001, pp.161-175. pare with a related brown lacquer kang table, 16th century, engraved and coloured with dragons, illustrated by Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art , New York and Tokyo, 1972, p.321, no.246. Another related tianqi lacquer kang table, 16th/17th century, is illustrated by M.Hughes, An Important Collection of Chinese, Korean, and Ryukyuan Lacquer , New York, 2006, p.50, no.35. A lobed qiangjin and tianqi lacquer flower and bird kang table, 17th century, is illustrated in The Creation of Natural Immensity and Grandeur: The Yang Ming Shan Collection of Lacquer from Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties , Beijing, 2020, pp.134-135, no.40.
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