A HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG WINE TABLE, JIUZHUO Ming dynasty, late-16th/early-17th centuryA HUANGHUALI RECESSED-LEG WINE TABLE, JIUZHUOMing dynasty, late-16th/early-17th centuryThe single-board top set into a mitered, mortise and tenon frame over an 'ice-plate' edge with transverse stretchers and exposed tenons on the long rails over scalloped-edge beaded aprons and leaf-shaped spandrels double-mitered and tenoned to elegant supports carved with central incense-stick molding under beaded edges joined to a pair of transverse stretchers and terminating in upturned cloud-scroll feet. 31.3/8 x 38 1/8 x 23 1/2in (79.8 x 96.8 x 59.8cm)明 十六世紀末/十七世紀初 黃花梨插肩榫壸門牙條酒桌Provenance:Nicholas Grindley, London, 1 March 1988Published:Sarah Handler, "Outstanding Pieces in Private Rooms: Chinese Classical Furniture in New American Collections," Orientations, January 1993, pp. 166-173; reprinted in Chinese Furniture: Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1999, pp. 166-173 and 171-72, illustrated as fig. 12.Exhibited:Educated Palates, joint exhibition of Nicholas Grindley Ltd. and Sydney L. Moss Ltd., New York, 13-17 October 1987, no. 26 來源：倫敦Nicholas Grindley古董行，1988年3月1日出版：莎拉·韓蕙（Sarah Handler），《Outstanding Pieces in Private Rooms: Chinese Classical Furniture in New American Collections 私人藏珍：新晉美國收藏中的中國古典家具》，《Orientations 美成在久》1993年1月刊，頁166-173；重刊於《Chinese Furniture: Selected Articles from Orientations 1984-1999 中國家具：美成在久雜誌1984-1999年文選合訂本》，頁166-173及171-172，插圖12展覽：《Educated Palates》，Nicholas Grindley古董行及Sydney L. Moss Ltd.藝廊協辦展覽，紐約，1987年10月13-17日，展品編號26This side table is a superb example of elegant proportions and exquisite craftsmanship. See a related example in the Hung Collection, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley and Anita Christy, CHINESE FURNITURE: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection (New York, 1996), no. 47, pp. 136-7 which has everted flanges and ruyi shaped footpads, and later sold at Christie's, 28 November 2017, as lot 2950. See a discussion and illustrations of wine tables with recessed flush mitered leg construction in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties Vol. II, p. 78, B36 and 37, and page 103, B96 and B37.See one of a small number of tables of this form at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, illustrated by Roger Ward and Patricia Fidler in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York, 1993), p. 342, For a related table with a green stone inset, see Christie's London, 28 May 2019, lot 3125.