A very rare huanghuali painting table, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period 清康熙 黃花梨束腰拐子龍紋畫桌 the top of a standard mitred, mortise-and-tenoned frame with a four-board floating panel, surmounting a narrow recessed waist and a straight apron decorated with confronting stylised kui dragons rendered in beaded angular scrollwork that continues down the inside edge of the square-section legs terminating in hoof feet, with the scrollwork protruding at the midsection of the legs 171 by 89.5 by h. 86.5 cm