A LOW HONGMU OVAL STAND

19TH CENTURY

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A LOW HONGMU OVAL STAND
19TH CENTURY
The top has a central oval aperture carved with a beaded edge and beaded outer rim above an integral narrow waist which continues to form the ruyi-shaped feet joined by archaistic scroll carved in openwork.
1 ¼ in. (3.3 cm.) high, 6 ¾ in. (17.3 cm.) wide, 5 in. (12.8 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related low, oval wood stand shown supporting a large white jade hu-form vase can be found in an eighteenth-century hand scroll painted by anonymous court painters entitled Pictures of Ancient Playthings, scroll 8, currently in the Percival David Foundation, London, and illustrated by E. Rawski and J. Rawson, China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005, pp. 254-5, pl. 169.

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