LATE MING DYNASTY

Details

AN EXTREMELY RARE HUANGHUALI OCTAGONAL INCENSE STAND
LATE MING DYNASTY
The top is of frame construction with a single board flush, tongue-and-grooved floating panel supported by one dovetailed transverse stretcher below. The edge of the frame moulds downwards and inwards from about one third way down and then again to end in a very narrow flat band. The waist and the beaded-edged leaf-shaped aprons are made of one piece of wood. The four rectangular legs are shaped in a graceful curve to end in small outward hoofs which are tenoned to the slightly curved, rectangular base stretchers, with four small feet at the corners.
19 7⁄8 in. (50.5 cm.) wide, 14 7⁄8 in. (37.7 cm.) deep, 40 5⁄8 in. (103.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Chung Wah Pui Collection (Hong Kong Min Chiu Society member), Hong Kong, 1990-1997
The MQJ Collection, Hong Kong

Literature

Hong Kong Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 281, no. 253
P.P. Piccus, ‘Conference and Exhibition Review’, Orientations, February 1995, Hong Kong, p. 69
Grace Wu Bruce, Two Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2010, pp. 18-19
Grace Wu, The Best of the Best- The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture- vol. 1, Beijing, 2017, pp. 70-73
Grace Wu, Three Decades of Ming Furniture, Beijing, 2024, pp. 22-23

Exhibited

Hong Kong, Grace Wu Bruce Co Ltd., Best of the Best- An Exhibition of Ming Furniture from Private Collections, December 1994
Hong Kong Museum of Art, In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, 22 December 1995-18 February 1996
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Best of the Best- The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture, 29 September-2 October 2017
Christie’s Hong Kong, A Special Exhibition of the MQJ Collection, 11-15 October 2024

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Lot Essay

The shape of this incense stand is very unusual. It is identical to the piece that was in the collection of Wang Shixiang, illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Ming Shi Jiaju Zhenshang (Appreciating Ming-Style Furniture), Beijing, 2003, p. 130, no. 75 (Fig. 1), now in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, China. They were made as a pair.

This item is made of a type of Dalbergia wood which is subject to CITES export/import restrictions since 2 January 2017. This item can only be shipped to addresses within Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom and office unless a CITES re-export permit is granted. Please contact the department for further information.

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