A CHINESE DREAMSTONE INLAID HARDWOOD KANG TABLE
Late Qing/Republic Period
height 12 3/4in (32cm); width 43 1/2in (111cm); depth 23in (58cm)
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Raised on four cabriole feet, the top set with three well-figured marble panels into a mitered, mortise and tenon frame above an ice-plate edge joined to a beaded apron becoming xiangcai and ruyi-head embellishments.

The central panel depicting a vast manor complex in the midst of a festive evening, the extensive buildings and grounds silhouetted against a lake and distant hills, the scene enclosed by borders of fans decorated with landscapes above and scenes of mythical animals below, the end panels carved with monumental dragons in clouds and bearing a cyclical date jiachen (1844/1904).

The dreamstone plaques removeable, losses to underside of one long apron.
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