64. 64Y TABLE EN HUANGHUALI, BANZHUO XVIIe siècle A HUANGHUALI SIDE TABLE, BANZHUO 17th century The single-panel floating panel top of standard mitre, mortise and tenon frame supported by three dovetailed transverse stretchers underneath, set within the rectangular frame with thumb-grooved edge, above a narrow, plain waist supported on a beaded apron and beaded legs of square section terminating in well drawn hoof feet joined by hump-back shaped stretchers, mortised and tenoned into the legs below the apron. 67.5cm x 76cm x 37 cm (26 5/8in x 29 7/8in x 14 5/8in) 十七世紀 黃花梨束腰羅鍋棖馬蹄足半桌 Provenance: Formerly in a German collection formed in China between 1912 and 1938 來源： 德國私人舊藏，於1912年至1938年間得自中國 Banzhuo, meaning half table, known as hexian in the south, a term that refers to them becoming an immortal's table or a square table when combined. In antiquity, they were placed adjacent to a square table to increase the number of people that can be seated round. A similar example in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Craig Clunas, Chinese Furniture, London, 1988, p.48. Compare also a related waistless huanghuali table of larger proportions from the Piccus Collection, sold in Christie's New York, 18 September 1997, lot 17.