AN ELEGANT ZITAN LOW TABLE, KANGZHUO Qing dynasty, 18th centuryAN ELEGANT ZITAN LOW TABLE, KANGZHUOQing dynasty, 18th centuryThe finely figured waisted low table composed of a two-board top tongue-and-grooved into a mitered, mortise and tenon frame supported by three transverse stretchers hidden-tenoned into the frame top, the thick, one-piece boards of the recessed waist and beaded aprons each mitered, mortise-and-tenoned to the bowed legs and hoof feet. 11 3/8 x 34 1/2 x 20 5/8in (28.8 x 87.2 x 52.8cm)清 十八世紀 紫檀有束腰馬蹄足鼓腿彭牙炕桌Provenance:Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 18 April 1994來源：香港嘉木堂（Grace Wu Bruce），1994年4月18日Though unadorned and of simple outline, this type of kangzhuo (low table) is illustrated in Wang Shixiang's Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture (Chicago, 1990) as a special design; see Volume I, p. 49, no. B2 for the explanatory text and Volume II, p. 62, no. B2 for Wang Shixiang's plain line sketch of a table of very close design. The more commonly seen kang table has straight or slightly incurved legs that end in hoof feet, while the present lot features robust outwardly curved legs of gutui pengya construction. A huanghuali kang table of this type was in the collection of Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), illustrated in Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, (Rutland & Tokyo, 1962), pl. 3 top.