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Lot Essay
The present stand was most probably purpose built for the suspension of display objects such as a ritual bronze bell, bianzhong, or a jade musical chime, bianqing. A related example suspending sixteen jade chimes is illustrated in Secret World of the Forbidden City, Splendors from China's Imperial Palace, The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2002, Santa Ana, pp. 32-33.
Its construction with upturned terminals on either side of the toprail is in a format very similar to clothes racks dated to the late 16th/early 17th century, such as the huanghuali example formerly from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 1996, lot 58, and now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institue of Arts.
Its construction with upturned terminals on either side of the toprail is in a format very similar to clothes racks dated to the late 16th/early 17th century, such as the huanghuali example formerly from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture, sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 1996, lot 58, and now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institue of Arts.