99×99×30 cm (38 1/2×38 1/2×11 3/4 in)

This low, hexagonal tzu-t'an table is unusual as it has no known counterpart. The Palace Museum, Peking has in its collection a fine example of an oblong k'ang table with the same type of marquetry separated by silver wire, but the inlay is coconut shell. The softwood floating panel on the top of the Hung table is veneered with small pieces of variegated root, burl, and straight-grain tzu-t'an arranged in a cracked-ice pattern (fig. a). Each piece of wood is contained by silver wire. This wire is the same size as the metal barrier wires used to separate enamels in the manufacture of cloisonné.
A slightly recessed waist is carved with an oblong relief-panel bead. The shaped aprons, each carved with a raised, molded edge, are centered with a flaming pearl. The aprons are mitered and half-lapped into short cabriole legs that terminate in a ball-and-leaf foot raised on hexagonal, stepped pads. The underside of the inlaid top retains its original lacquer surface (fig. b).
——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: 480,000 - 800,000
USD: 61,700 - 102,800

Auction Result:
HKD: 1,920,000