17TH CENTURY

Tables of this type have been amongst the most admired since the late Ming dynasty as evident in their consistent popularity through subsequent periods. A similar example, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Craig Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, no. 33; Another example from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (I), Hong Kong, 2002, p.114, no. 97.

This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.