In the Ming-style furniture, there is a kind of instrument type similar to the appearance of the pingtou case, which is very different in size and low height, and the name is not related to the case, it is a wine table.
Because it is used for catering, the shape and decoration of the wine table are generally relatively simple, which is difficult to compare with the elaborate literati book.
Even the heirloom wine table made of huanghuali is mostly in a simple and extensive form, and rarely encounters exquisite examples. At an Asian Art Week auction in New York next week, there is a yellow flower pear wine table, with stitches and carvings, exquisite style and fine workmanship.
Huanghuali wine table, 80.9 meters long, 44.5 meters high, 77.5 centimeters high, dating from the Qing Dynasty to the nineteenth century, although the name is "table", structurally still belongs to the case type.
The table top is grooved with a single board face, the wood grain is twisted and smooth, and the grimace face rises and falls, looking like a yellow flower pear.
The tooth head is flat with the tooth strip, the cloud head is hooked, the embossed flower leaves, tilted from the outside to the inside, gradually harvested into a cone, and then with the bottom of the fat toot extending downwards, the tooth plate shape is more special.
The legs are mixed with the edge line, and the middle leather strip line is made of puddles, and the overall layer is clear.
The square legs are straight, and the ends are slightly retracted. The collection is estimated at $40,000 to $60,000, or about 252,000 to 378,000 yuan.
There is also a pair of small squares in the same field, which are rare and distinctive in form. Huanghuali carved dragon pattern rectangular pairs, length 48.9 width 41.9 height 87.6 cm, from a well-known antique dealer in Hong Kong, the specific age is unknown.
Square and four-sided flat structure, rice dumplings with tenon frame, legs and feet are connected by straight fir. There is a drawer on the maple, a relief double mantis holding a shou pattern, and a square copper handle. The bottom of the fir is equipped with a front tooth strip, carved in the middle of a auspicious cloud, half a cloud head on the left and right, decorated along the edge of the line.
Side gang relief sculpture of the dragon pattern, falling hall loading board, inward turn of the foot horse's hoof landing end. Pairs of rectangular couples are valued exactly like wine tables, at $40,000 to $60,000.