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A LOW HUANGHUALI WASHBASIN STAND, MIANPENJIA
17TH CENTURY
The stand with five long, slender legs flaring at the top and the bottom, joined by an upper and lower star-shaped hub, each composed of five stretchers, the stretchers each with a mortise in the center, and a tenon at either end, fitting into the mortise of the previous stretcher and into the leg, the circular baitong basin with a dished mouth and everted rim of later date
29½in. (75cm.) high, 15in. (38cm.) outside diameter (2)
Literature
Sarah Handler, "Ablutions and Washing Clean: The Chinese Washbasin and Stand", JCCFS, Autumn 1991, p. 28, figs. 10 and 10a
Wang et al., Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, p. 178, no. 83
