19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ZITAN STANDS
19TH CENTURY
Each top is enclosed in a thick rectangular frame finely carved with raised beaded borders. The whole is supported on similarly carved legs and joined by base stretchers of conforming shape and raised on low bracket feet.
31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high, 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) wide, 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

Provenance

Altfield Gallery, Hong Kong.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

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Lot Essay

Compare the present stands with a huanghuali stand of similar form, alternatively called a trestle support for a plank-form table, illustrated by Gustave Ecke in Chinese Domestic Furniture, Beijing, 1944, p. 92, no. 71. The Ecke example, however, does not have the finely-carved beading on the legs, aprons, and spandrels found on the present pair.

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