Lot Essay
A scroll-shaped stand from the same period, with a similar inlaid pattern although filled in with lacquer is illustrated in Lee Yu-kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art, published for Oriental House Limited Tokyo, New York/Tokyo 1971, p.207, pl.142. Even if this motif with bird among blossoming cherry tree is typical from the Kangxi period, there are no example of a similar stand inlaid with this kind of decoration