Live Auction 7688Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Lot 99

A HUANGHUALI THREE-SHELF OPEN STAND, SANCENG JIAGE

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A HUANGHUALI THREE-SHELF OPEN STAND, SANCENG JIAGE
MING DYNASTY

Of rectangular form, the slender square corner posts joined by the plain top and three shelves, the second shelf framed by the top of a row of two drawers, the bottom shelf above a plain humped stretcher--74in. (188cm.) high, each shelf 19 x 41in. (48.3 x 104.1cm.)

Specialist note

A similar stand is illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, 1990, vol. II, p. 140, D3. In volume I it is suggested that the lightness of construction makes the piece more "suitable for display than for use as a bookcase"