Lot Essay
Compare the mirror stand from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture sold in these rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 56; the example in the Honolulu Academy of Arts illustrated by Robert H. Ellsworth in Chinese Hardwood Furniture in Hawaiian Collections, p. 64, no. 46; and the example included in the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum exhibition, Classical Chinese Wood Furniture, Catalogue, p. 32, no. 12. See, also, a smaller stand with only one set of railings and a central panel of prunus and magpies included in the exhibition, The Dr. S.Y. Yip Collection of Chinese Furniture, and illustrated by Grace Wu Bruce in the Catalogue, no. 67. Another smaller example with a central panel of a dragon and waves was sold at Sotheby's New York, 18-19 October 1990, lot 538