16TH CENTURY

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A HIGH HUANGHUALI BRAZIER STAND, HUOPENJIA
16TH CENTURY
The top with a large rectangular aperture to accomodate the brazier pan, and 'ice-plate' edge above a straight waist continuous with the cusped, arched apron with openwork cloudheads at the corners, the 'leather-strip' molding continuing down the legs, each carved with a foliate motif supported on a stem, terminating in inward-scrolling feet on rounded pads, joined by crossed stretchers, the baitong pan a replacement
23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) high, 20 1/8 in. (51 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection; Christie's, New York, 19 September 1996, lot 46.

Literature

Sarah Handler, "Perfumed Coals in Previous Braziers Burn", JCCFS, Summer 1991, p. 4, figs. 1, 17a and 17b.
Wang Shixiang, "Additional Examples of Classical Chinese Furniture", Orientations, January 1992, p. 49, no. 13.
Wang Shixiang and C. Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 164, no. 76.

Lot Essay

See Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 62, no. 16, for a stool of related form with crossed stretchers. Refer, also, to G. Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan, 1962, pl. 94, no. 72 for a similar example.

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