Chinese red lacquered scholar’s painting table, €300,000 (£253,000) at Marques Dos Santos.
This red lacquered table inset to the top with a dali marble ‘picture stone’ panel, was estimated at €1000-2000 at the auction on June 15 but sold at €300,000 (£253,000).
Tables of these proportions were probably used for painting in a scholar’s studio, its generous length and depth providing ample surface for free, unimpeded movement around a paper scroll.
The corner leg and a recessed waist with reticulated narrow panels gives it its distinctive form - one pioneered in the Ming period.
The magnitude of the price suggests a date from the late Ming or the early Qing period.
