LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY

A pair of shorter zitan incense stands (75.2 cm. high), with thumb-grooved edge and hoof feet, from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, was sold at Christie's New York, 18 March 2015, lot 147. See, also, another pair of square zitan stands (84 cm. high), elaborately carved with endless knots on the tall waist and carved aprons, illustrated in the catalogue Zitan: The Most Noble Hardwood, My Humble House Publications, Taipei, 1996, pp. 144-45.