A small Chinese huanghuali rectangular corner-leg waisted side table, banzhuo 

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A small Chinese huanghuali rectangular corner-leg waisted side table, banzhuo Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century The top panel enclosed within a broad frame with moulded 'ice-plate' edge, set on a narrow thumb-mould waist above the beaded apron above recessed spandrel stretchers within sloping and beaded square legs terminating in raised profile square feet, 91cm long x 45.8cm wide x 86.2cm high. 清十八/十九世紀 黃花梨束腰馬蹄足板桌 The present banzhuo is associated with the first resurgence of Taoist orthodoxy in Qing Dynasty China, occurring during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, following renewed scholarly interest in 'The Way' and a number of significant Taoist publications of the period. Chief among these were the Lüzu Quanshu (Complete Works of Patriarch Lü), a sixty-four volume compilation published in Hangzhou in 1775 by Shao Zhiling (1748–1810), drawing on spirit-writing at the Guixiang Ji altar, and the Lüzu Quanshu Zongzheng Jicheng, an expanded canon edited by Jiang Yupu (1755 -1819) and his father at the Jueyuan Tan altar in Beijing, completed in 1801 and later incorporated into the Daozang Jiyao (1817). Furniture design of the earlier eighteenth century reflects a European-influenced vernacular, with works in precious woods carved with elaborate decorative schemes. By the latter decades of the century, however, literati taste had shifted toward a more restrained aesthetic, recalling Ming Dynasty precedents in its use of tapered columns and sloping legs, wider at the base, and in an approach that allows the quality of the timber - whether huanghuali or zitan - to remain the primary point of interest. Works of this period, while indebted to late Ming cabinetmaking traditions, are nonetheless recognisably of their time.

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