68×48×71.5 cm (26 3/4×18 7/8×28 1/8 in)

Recessed-leg tables without waists and with original or added shelves are relatively common, but tables with corner legs and shelves are rarely seen. A similar form of construction, however, was used for pedestals, which functioned as supports for the heavy plank tops of pedestal tables (see, for example, No. 69).
This table is of standard construction: the rectangular top has a single, flush, floating panel and is supported on round-section legs tenoned into each corner and splayed in both front and end elevations. The legs are joined by a high humpback stretcher of D-section which appears to have a solely decorative function. Four straight lower stretchers form the framing rails of the shelf. In addition to the two dovetail stretchers customarily found on tabletops of this dimension, there is a third longitudinal stretcher tenoned and pinned into the short rails of the frame. Such a construction in a table of this relatively small size indicates that it may have been specially made to support an object of some weight, possibly as one of a pair used with a plank top.
——Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Nicholas Grindley, and Anita Christy, Chinese Funiture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection

Price estimate:
HKD: 1,200,000 - 2,200,000
USD: 154,200 - 282,600

Auction Result:
HKD: 1,440,000