Lot Essay
The present jingtai is of unusually large proportions. See another very comparable large mirror stand also carved in openwork with a boy riding a qilin, sold by Christie's New York, 'Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection', 19 September 1996, lot 56. Another slightly more elaborated is illustrated in Classical Chinese Furniture in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 1999, p.178-181, pl.64.