Altarbord, zitan. Qingdynastin, 1800-tal.
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Avlångt med en mittplanka satt i en ram, förkläde skuren i djup genombruten relief, mot ben med skuren genombruten mittmedaljong med granatäpplen, lövverk och trädgrådsklippor. Höjd 89, längd 194,5, djup 43,5 cm.
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Proveniens
From the Collection Paul R. Wedendal (1924-2010), Djursholm, Stockholm. This table has been in the family since the 1970's.
To see objects from the Collecton of Paul R. Wedendal Senior, see a single owner sale that were held in these rooms at Bukowskis in 2011. See Auction H036.
Utställningar
Compare a table in the Asian Art Museum, San Fransisco. approx. 1750-1850, zitan, from the Avery Bundage Collection, inv. no B71M2.
Compare interiors depicted in the Forbidden City, The Great Within, May Holdsworth & Caroline Courtauld. See for example the Interior of the Palace of Concentrated Beauty.
Compare the same kind of decoration of twisted ropes (then holding bi discs) on a pair of table solds Sothebys, Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Hong Kong 8, October 2013. Lot no 3084.
Compare also at the same sale lot no 3083. A pair of carved zitan tables with recessed-leg.
Litteratur
Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City, Edited by The Palace Musum, Beijing 1983. Compare furniture of this kind of carving on page 56, 82, 83. MingQing. Gungting Jia Ju Zhen da Quan, Beijing 2006. Compare tables of this style, page 255, 258.
Orientations, December 1994. p 43-49. An article by Tian Jia Qing 'Zitan and Zitan Furniture'. Discusses the great shortage druing the Qing dynasty of the material during large scale use in contruction projects, Tian, discovered recoreds in the Archives of the Imperial Workshops, which indicate that 'all the zitan found by officials through the coutry had to be turned over to the imperial palace... '.
Övrig information
As discussed by Nancy Berliner, in a catalogue called Beyond the Screen, Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, these massive tables are rare. With the social upheaval in China during the 20th Century, tables of this great size were particularly suceptible to damage. Smaller objects could easier be transported and sold.
Compare also interiors with carvings like this in the Hall of Great Supremacy.