Lot Essay
This stand is very rare and there is no similar example. Compare with the cover of a circular box from the Ming dynasty, kept at the National Museum of Tokyo, decorated with the same kind of mother-of-pearl inlaid pattern and illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections : Lacquerware, published by the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1987, p.147, pl.144