An Impressive Chinese Export Carved Hardwood Console Table, 19th Century
清晚期 外銷紅木桌

19th Century

The shaped rectangular top over an apron with applied scrollwork, the center pierced, raised on two scroll-carved cabriole legs at the front, scroll-ornamented pilaster supports at the back; the dense, heavy timber with lustrous grain; later glass and plywood top.
Note:
For a console table of similar extravagant western-inspired form and scale, see the example, described as Imperial zitan, 18th/19th century, sold at Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, May 21, 2014, lot 33, where it is noted that the ornamentation and feet are similar to a throne illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), p.34, no.26. Compare also the console table, brought to America by Captain Bennet Forbes in 1849, illustrated by Carl Crossman, The China Trade, Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Other Objects, Princeton, 1972, no.130, p 157. Compare also the table of shorter width, with a platform base, formerly in the collection of Anne and Gordon Getty, sold at Stair Auction, The Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty at STAIR: A Lifetime of Connoisseurship, Curiosity and Collecting, January 23, 2024, lot 159.

Height 27 x width 50 1/4 x depth 26 1/2 in., 68.6 x 127.6 x 67.3 cm.

This lot is located in New York.