RARE TABLE D'AUTEL EN HUANGHUALI, GONGZHUO

RARE TABLE D'AUTEL EN HUANGHUALI, GONGZHUO
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XIXEME SIECLE
De section rectangulaire, elle repose sur quatre pieds cambrés surmontant une base rectangulaire en forme de corniche ajourée. La ceinture contournée est ornée de quatre réserves polylobées à décor de feuillage et de treillis losangés.
Hauteur: 87 cm. (34 1⁄4 in.)
Longueur: 82 cm. (32 1⁄4 in.)
Profondeur: 58.6 cm. (23 in.)

Provenance
Collection of Dr Eric Vio (1910-1999), then by descent within the family.
Dr. Eric Vio was born in 1910 in Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia), qualified as a surgeon in Rome, and moved to Shanghai, where in August 1937 as Japanese bombs fell all around, he found himself the sole remaining doctor working in Ward Road Gaol. He was interned by the Japanese, and after the war came to Hong Kong to set up a medical practice. An extremely scholarly man, through the 1940s-1960s he built up an extensive and fine collection of Chinese furniture, jades, ivories, and bronzes, some of which he later donated to museums in Germany, and much of which was sold in the 1970s. He retired finally to Andorra, and this altar table was one of the pieces he kept for his own home. He died in 1999, but his Hong Kong practice Vio and Partners still thrives, in Central, Hong Kong.