A RARE ZITAN CORNER-LEG TABLE, TIAOZHUO Qing dynasty, 18th centuryA RARE ZITAN CORNER-LEG TABLE, TIAOZHUOQing dynasty, 18th centuryThe finely figured single-board floating panel top set into a mitered, mortise and tenon frame over three transverse stretchers hidden tenoned into the ice-plate edge, the elegant, thick beaded apron with barbed and cusped edge half lapped and tongue-and-grooved into the underside of the frame and into the slightly splayed tubular supports. 33 x 41 5/8in x 13 7/8in (83.8 x 105.7 x 35.2cm)清 十八世紀 紫檀無束腰壸門牙子小條桌Provenance:Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 10 May 1990Published:Grace Wu Bruce, 'Classical Chinese Furniture in Tzu-t'an Wood', Arts of Asia, November – December 1991, pp. 138-148, fig 17.來源：香港嘉木堂（Grace Wu Bruce），1990年5月10日出版：伍嘉恩（Grace Wu Bruce），《Classical Chinese Furniture in Tzu-t'an Wood 中國古典紫檀家具》，《Arts of Asia 亞洲藝術》，1991年11月至12月刊，頁138-148，插圖編號17The design and dimensions of the present lot are very similar to a zitan tiaozhuo (long narrow corner-leg table) in the collection of the Summer Palace, which is illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties (Chicago, 1986), pp. 149 and 284, no. 95. In addition, a zitan kangji (long, low and narrow rectangular table to be placed on a kang bed), also in the Summer Palace, illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties Volume I (Chicago: Art Media Resources Ltd., 1990), p. 51, no. B19 (text) and in Volume II, p. 71, no. B19 (illustration), has the same design as the present lot, featuring gracefully scrolled curvilineal aprons and ice-plate edge. According to Wang Shixiang, these pieces are "made of high-quality zitan and are among 10 to 20 pieces of this type in the Summer Palace Collection. These pieces are in a Ming style...and were likely made as imitations by the Imperial Workshop during the reigns of Yongzheng or Qianlong." A comparable zitan corner-leg table, from the Marie Thereasa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection, was sold at Christie's New York, 15 March 2017, lot 642.