A LATE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL OCTAGONAL STAND

17TH CENTURY

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A LATE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL OCTAGONAL STAND
17th century
The top decorated with a gentleman seated at a desk playing a qin flanked by two attendants, one holding a large fan, before an elegant lady and her attendant all on a terrace beneath a tree and beside flowering lotus, supported by the gilt body of the stand moulded with lappets and ruyi-heads issuing eight scrolling legs joined at the feet, some enamel losses and gilding rubbed
13in. (33cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A larger late Ming Dynasty plaque of this type, depicting figures in a riverscape, is illustrated by Sir H. Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, pl.56; and an unusual roll-legged scroll stand of similar date, ibid., pl.57. A very similar gilt-bronze-mounted hexagonal stand, dated to the first half of the 17th Century, is in the Uldry Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, no.140.

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