A SMALL HONGMU WAISTED 'LOTUS' STAND

18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A SMALL HONGMU WAISTED 'LOTUS' STAND
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The top is carved in openwork with a double vajra encircled by two rings and set into a pierced, circular frame carved as an open lotus flower. A finely carved band of lotus lappets encircles the rounded shoulder above pierced and beaded aprons carved with ruyi and raised on five pierced and beaded ruyi-form feet.
1 ½ in. (4 cm.) high, 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A related circular, waisted wood stand raised on ruyi-form feet is seen in a painting by Zhang Weibang (c. 1721-61), dating to the Yongzheng or Qianlong period, entitled The Spring Festival, illustrated by E. Rawski and J. Rawson, China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005, p. 186, pl. 82, where it is shown displaying a high-shouldered Guan-type vase with a towering floral arrangement.

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