Stand for a Trestle Table
CultureChinese
Datelate 17th-early 18th century
MediumHuanghuali wood with rosewood
DimensionsOverall: 34 × 18 3/4 × 18 3/4 inches (86.36 × 47.63 × 47.63 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number64-4/12 B
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DescriptionOne of a pair of huanghuali square pedestals of upright rectangular shape with a mitred, mortise and tenon frame top with an inset floating panel, the outside edge of the frame cut with a concave molding above a recessed concave waist. The square section legs, concave to the two outer faces are mitred and double-lock mortise and tenoned into the frame top and mitred, and probably half-lapped into the aprons which are similarly molded. A straight horizontal stretcher is mitred and tenoned into the inside edges of the legs with the concave molding and its associated indented molding continuing into the legs and aprons. The legs are joined at the base by concave molded base stretchers which are mitred and tenoned into the legs which continue past the base stretchers to form a small foot. Between the apron and the horizontal stretchers are double interlocking cash-motif medallions loose-tenoned into both and finished with a concave face. There are angular brackets similarly finished between the stretcher and the legs. Late 17th, early 18th century.Gallery LabelThis stand may have been used for display individually, or may have supported a long trestle table. Very few trestle tables have survived, since the top board was often reused to make other pieces of furniture. Whatever the original use of this stand, we can admire its subtle dished surface and intricate openwork decoration.
Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II;
Purchased from Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch‘ing Dynasties (New Fairfield: Robert H. Ellsworth, 1997), 256, pl. 85 (repro.).
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