A PAIR OF POLYCHROME LACQUER INCENSE STANDS, XIANGJI

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A PAIR OF POLYCHROME LACQUER INCENSE STANDS, XIANGJI
LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY

Each circular top incised and painted with a central flowerhead encircled by a wide band of lotus scroll conjoined with four bats and geometric scroll motifs, with a narrow foliate band at the rim, above a waist divided into five panels pierced with elongated cartouches, the bracketed apron with beaded edge continuing down the sides of the slender cabriole legs which taper to ruyi-head feet set atop a ring base, painted allover with lotus scroll in dark green, red, ochre and black reserved on a tobacco-brown ground
33¾in. (85.8cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A related lacquer stand of this type in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City is illustrated in Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, p. 190, no. 180. Compare, also, the huanghuali example of very similar form in the Yang Yao Collection, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1990, p. 53, no. B26 and vol. II, pp. 10 and 74

See another huanghuali example without the projecting barbs at the midpoint of the legs and with a solid circular base, formerly in the Museum of Chinese Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, sold in these rooms September 19, 1996, lot 48